The Mercy Seat: A Play

A man and his mistress ponder their futures the day after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center in this play by the author of Reasons to Be Pretty.

"Neil LaBute is the first dramatist since David Mamet and Sam Shepard—since Edward Albee, actually—to mix sympathy and savagery, pathos and power." —Donald Lyons, New York Post

In a time of national tragedy, the world changes overnight. On September 12, 2001, Ben Harcouort finds himself in the downtown apartment of his lover, Abby Prescott—wh...