cover design by Charlotte Strick
cover photographs by Jeff Williams

  “In what has become a remarkably fertile season for the least self-censoring of contemporary American playwrights, Neil LaBute continues to push the buttons of his audiences, confronting them again with the darker behavioral shadings of the outwardly normal human animal in THIS IS HOW IT GOES. Representing a trenchant one-two punch after FAT PIG--which could become a triple blow if the London premiere of LaBute's SOME GIRLS in May maintains the standard--this three-character one-act play maliciously tweaks perspectives of truth and interpretation to broach spiky questions of race and love.
   A sharply honed work that insidiously inches under the skin with its unforgiving insights and typically LaBute-ian nasty tricks…LaBute's pithy writing….
   Whatever reaction it elicits, the work remains unpredictable, manifesting the elusiveness of truth and showing an equal-opportunity misanthropy that lets neither white nor black attitudes off the hook.”
David Rooney, Variety