The Shape of Things (Faber Drama) - Tapa blanda

"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"

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