bash by Neil Labute (The Storeroom, February 2004)

bash by Neil Labute
directed by Julie O'Reilly
2004 Return Season
lighting & sound - Jeany Lee
photography - Sue Brownbill
The Storeroom


Bash, performed last year by the group Act-O-Matic 3000, has been restaged at The Store Room. Its quality is outstanding, and I am grateful for the opportunity to see it as a stand-alone production. The acting, directed with great subtlety and attention to timing and detail by Julie O’Reilly, is first-class.
-The Age




A white-collar worker confides in a stranger about the downsizing of his family.

A young couple recall the night they attended a fabulous bash in the city.

A woman reminisces about a secret affair with her high school English teacher and its chilling consequences.

Through the vivid telling of unspeakable and insidious violence, writer Neil Labute (In The Company of Men, The Shape of Things) presents a brutal picture of societal malaise.