This Is How It Goes

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This Is How It Goes
Written by	Neil LaBute
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This Is How It Goes, is a 2005 play by Neil LaBute set in small town America, about the repercussions of an interracial love triangle.

Cody (Jeffrey Wright), once the star of the high school track team, has become a successful businessman while his wife Belinda (Amanda Peet), a former cheerleader, stays at home with the baby. When a high school acquaintance (Ben Stiller) returns to town and rents the room over their garage, he upsets the delicate balance of their relationship, raising questions about who they want to be, who they are, and what made them that way.

The play debuted in the in 2005 at the Donmar Warehouse, starring Ben Chaplin, Megan Dodds and Idris Elba.

The Off-Broadway production which opened on March 11, 2005 at The Public Theater, was directed by George C. Wolfe, and stared Amanda Peet, Ben Stiller, and Jeffrey Wright.