Bash: Latter-Day Plays
2001·Drama·1h 40m
7.1
★
The movie comprises three vignettes of actors-speaking-to-audience, two of which are monologues. All three revolve around violence or murder.
Directed by Neil LaBute
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Cast
Ron Eldard
John
Calista Flockhart
Sue
Paul Rudd
Tim
Crew
Neil LaBute
Director
Neil LaBute
Writer
Euripides
Theatre Play
Popular Reviews
1 review
Joey
9.0★ · 02/24/26
“‘adakia,’ that’s the word. the word I was trying, you know, that’s it. ‘the world out of balance.’ you can look it up if you wanna, but I’m sure that’s the one…i knew it’d come to me if i waited long enough.”I found this in my campus’s little free library in one of my early years here. Underlined to hell and back, still covered in stickers marking it as “used”. Likely parted with by one of my theatre professors or a student on the verge of graduation. I found many plays that year. I hadn’t chosen to brave it until this year though, upon a night in my apartment discussing my university’s handling of another LaBute work (reasons to be pretty, if you must know). But no work, no matter how well it was handled, could have prepared me for the latter day insanity that Bash was about to bestow on me.
The first play in the collection, Iphigenia in Orem, was a nauseating read at the very least. Full of dread and an underlying sense of despair that prevented me from conquering it in its textual form. I found myself parting ways with the text into the hands of my partner’s roommate before i could even finish it. But it still haunted me. That photo of Ron Eldard in the chair describing the unspeakable haunted me every waking moment of my day. I’d like to first thank the person who posted this on YouTube as having access to a format that allowed for pausing, breaks, and resumption at my discretion as this show is HEAVY.
It’s many things. Sad, scary, shaking. Only aided by each actor’s delivery of each line. Describing things in graphic detail or in little to none with the same level of honesty and intensity that just absolutely churns your stomach.
Bash is Paul Rudd before the wholesome dad typecast
Bash is violence described that provokes the same reactions as viewing it head on
Bash is “innocence” in it’s literal and figurative forms being ripped to shreds
Bash is theatre
“‘adakia,’ that’s the word. the word I was trying, you know, that’s it. ‘the world out of balance.’ you can look it up if you wanna, but I’m sure that’s the one…i knew it’d come to me if i waited long enough.”I found this in my campus’s little free library in one of my early years here. Underlined to hell and back, still covered in stickers marking it as “used”. Likely parted with by one of my theatre professors or a student on the verge of graduation. I found many plays that year. I hadn’t chosen to brave it until this year though, upon a night in my apartment discussing my university’s handling of another LaBute work (reasons to be pretty, if you must know). But no work, no matter how well it was handled, could have prepared me for the latter day insanity that Bash was about to bestow on me.
The first play in the collection, Iphigenia in Orem, was a nauseating read at the very least. Full of dread and an underlying sense of despair that prevented me from conquering it in its textual form. I found myself parting ways with the text into the hands of my partner’s roommate before i could even finish it. But it still haunted me. That photo of Ron Eldard in the chair describing the unspeakable haunted me every waking moment of my day. I’d like to first thank the person who posted this on YouTube as having access to a format that allowed for pausing, breaks, and resumption at my discretion as this show is HEAVY.
It’s many things. Sad, scary, shaking. Only aided by each actor’s delivery of each line. Describing things in graphic detail or in little to none with the same level of honesty and intensity that just absolutely churns your stomach.
Bash is Paul Rudd before the wholesome dad typecast
Bash is violence described that provokes the same reactions as viewing it head on
Bash is “innocence” in it’s literal and figurative forms being ripped to shreds
Bash is theatre
