The Shape of Things - Softcover

LaBute, Neil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571212468 ISBN 13: 9780571212460

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Neil N. LaBute (born March 19, 1963)[1] is an American playwright, film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best-known for a play that he wrote and later adapted for film, In the Company of Men (1997), which won awards from the Sundance Film Festival, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the New York Film Critics Circle. He wrote and directed the films Your Friends & Neighbors (1998), Possession (2002) (based on the A.S. Byatt novel), The Shape of Things (2003) (based on his play of the same name), The Wicker Man (2006), Some Velvet Morning (2013), and Dirty Weekend (2015). He directed the films Nurse Betty (2000), Lakeview Terrace (2008), and the American adaptation of Death at a Funeral (2010). LaBute created the TV series Billy & Billie, writing and directing all of the episodes and is also creator of the TV series Van Helsing. He also directed several episodes for shows such as Hell on Wheels and Billions.

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0571212468
• ISBN 13: 9780571212460
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96