All the Ways to Say I Love You
by Neil Labute
Synopsis
THE STORY: Mrs. Johnson is a high school English teacher and guidance counselor in a loving marriage.
As she recounts her experiences with a favored student from her past, Mrs. Johnson slowly reveals the truth that is hidden just beneath the surface details of her life.
ALL THE WAYS TO SAY I LOVE YOU is a solo play about love, hard choices, and the cost of fulfilling an all-consuming desire.
Press Reviews
"[ALL THE WAYS TO SAY I LOVE YOU] is a throwback to a favorite form of Mr. LaBute’s earlier days: the one-act monologue in which an ostensibly sunny soul strips down to dark shadows.” —The New York Times. “It’s a testament to…the effectiveness of LaBute’s prose that you may handily forget [his] Mrs. Johnson is duplicitous, irresponsible…and to some degree disconnected from reality…exquisitely interesting material…” —WNBC New York. “Leave it to Neil LaBute to find a heretofore unknown…way to express one’s love…As anyone who knows LaBute’s work can expect, a creeping primal darkness ensnares us in what appears to be an ordinary life."
— Newsday (NY)
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All the Ways to Say I Love You is a play written by Neil Labute and published by Dramatists Play Service.
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle.
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