The Shape of Things - Softcover

LaBute, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571212468 ISBN 13: 9780571212460

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2002

Synopsis

How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? Which price might you pay?

Such are the painful questions explored by Neil Labute in The Shape of Things. A young student drifts into an ever-changing relationship with an art major while his best friends' engagement crumbles, so unleashing a drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath.

The world première of The Shape of Things was presented at the Almeida, London, in May 2001.

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Review:

"LaBute meticulously plans that the shocking, climatic revelations should cast dark light upon his apparently average people." --Nicholas de Jongh, "The Standard""" "LaBute's great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying." --John Lahr, "The New Yorker" "A piece whose intricate layers of treachery are worthy of David Mamet." --Paul Taylor, "The Independent"

"LaBute meticulously plans that the shocking, climatic revelations should cast dark light upon his apparently average people." --"Nicholas de Jongh, The Standard"

"LaBute's great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying." --"John Lahr, The New Yorker"

"A piece whose intricate layers of treachery are worthy of David Mamet." --"Paul Taylor, The Independent"

LaBute meticulously plans that the shocking, climatic revelations should cast dark light upon his apparently average people. "Nicholas de Jongh, The Standard"

LaBute's great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying. "John Lahr, The New Yorker"

A piece whose intricate layers of treachery are worthy of David Mamet. "Paul Taylor, The Independent""

"LaBute meticulously plans that the shocking, climatic revelations should cast dark light upon his apparently average people." --Nicholas de Jongh, The Standard

"LaBute's great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying." --John Lahr, The New Yorker

"A piece whose intricate layers of treachery are worthy of David Mamet." --Paul Taylor, The Independent

Book Description:

The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships, exposing the raw meat and gristle that lie beneath.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0571212468
• ISBN 13: 9780571212460
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144