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Written between 2000 and 2010 by award winning playwright Brett Neveu, these short plays are a mixture of sad, funny tales about human interaction and objects interceding into daily life.

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The great joke of the universe-well, there are lots of great jokes of the universe. But one of them, certainly, is that human beings can't be trusted with the things they're capable of creating. We build combustion engines and choke on them, split atoms only to irradiate ourselves. Brett Neveu's new farce does a fine, crazed, funny job of telling that joke. Chris is an inventor who's come up with something astonishing. He takes it to Britt, wh...

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Anxiety courses quietly throughout WEAPON OF MASS IMPACT, but not so quietly that it won't haunt you indefinitely." TimeOut Chicago "...[a] thoroughly compelling new play... ...You come to see that we're probing the definition of terrorism here. You get the sense that [Neveu] is observing that the traumas of our individual lives can impart just as much individual misery as those mysteriously absent weapons of mass destruction that preoccu...

Neveau's latest is a murder investigation, similarly filled with subterranean currents of subtext beneath vividly colloquial dialogues...The murder in OLD GLORY occurs in Fallujah where-never mind the war-two American GIs who share a barracks drive each other to paroxysms of mutual loathing. (So no, Gertrude, this is not really a play about the war but about the homefront) ...The latent violence simmering between the soldiers-one a devotee of ...

At first glance Brett Neveu's new play looks like yet another ripped-from-the-headlines docudrama: a troubled college freshman submits a disturbingly violent first-person story to his fiction-writing class, consequently pitting an adjunct professor's insistence on the student's free-speech rights against the college president's need to protect his institution's reputation. (The story is based on a 2003 incident at San Francisco's Academy of Ar...