The Last Barbecue

An audacious and dark comedy about a ten-year reunion of a son’s high school graduation that coincides with the one-year anniversary of the next-door neighbor’s death. About the playwright: “Perhaps the city’s closest equivalent to a young David] Mamet.” -Chris Jones, The Chicago Tribune “One of the most prolific, intelligent, and innovative playwrights to write in Chicago in years, maybe decades.” -Jack Helbig, PerformInk “The bard of midwestern angst.” -Lucia Mauro, Chicago Magazine “Make no mistake. This is an author worth watching, and listening to.” -Michael Phillips, The Chicago Tribune About the play: “Nobody can accuse Brett Neveu’s likable dark comedy THE LAST BARBECUE of being talky. Most of the time its five characters speak in short, seemingly innocuous sentences … They seem largely ill at ease with one another. And it’s amazing how much they convey.” -Anita Gates, The New York Times “Chicago playwright Brett Neveu understands the importance of silence: THE LAST BARBECUE contains some of the most beautiful, pregnant, well-orchestrated silences this side of Harold Pinter. And like Pinter’s pauses, Neveu’s contain a universe of unexpressed feeling, of half-hidden resentments and regrets.” -Jack Helbig, Chicago Reader

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Neveu, Brett
Published: 09/01/2007
Publisher: Broadway Play Publishing
ISBN: 9780881453522
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.14d