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How far would you go for love? For art? What would you be willing to change? What 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. "Any shrewd chap who finds his artist girlfriend has a video-camera in the bedroom to film the cut and thrust of their sexual action might well fear he was destined to end up as her artistic fodder. But in THE SHAPE OF THINGS, Neil LaBute's absolutely chilling report from the sex war's frontline, where stratagems for sexual humiliations are planned, Adam, the shy chap concerned, takes the video-camera, so to speak, lying down. LaBute, the remarkable American movie director and playwright whose film In the Company of Men showed a sexually unappealing woman exploited by two vengeful pretend lovers, now returns to this theme. This time it's a man who's the victim of female guile ... LaBute meticulously plans that the shocking, climatic revelations should cast dark light upon his apparently average people." -Nicholas de Jongh, The Standard "[LaBute] continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism, whose ultimate evil is an inability to imagine the suffering of others ... 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. Where does truth end and fiction begin? Is the fiction more valuable than the truth? Do the results justify the means?" -John Lahr, The New Yorker "What is art? What are you permitted to do in its name? ... These questions are thrown up by a piece whose intricate layers of treachery are worthy of David Mamet ..." -Paul Taylor, The Independent "LaBute is a smart, ambitious writer who, at his best, dares to explore the ambivalence hiding under the weave of our social fabric. He always has a serious intellectual project in mind, and here he aims at no less than the subjectivity of love and the definition of art itself. THE SHAPE OF THINGS is compulsively watchable." -Gordon Cox, Newsday "LaBute is the most gifted, intelligent and wittily moral American playwright since Wallace Shawn; that is high praise, believe me. And this play marks his theatrical maturity. It's a must see." -Michael Coveney, Daily Mail
- Sales Rank: #67525 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Broadway Play Pub
- Published on: 2003-12-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .20" w x 5.51" l, .28 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 88 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
loved it
By Marilou Baughman
This was my first exposure to Neil LaBute. I bought three plays, and I can't wait to read the others. The Shape of Things is very thought-provoking, and I see in his characters many truths about humanity.
Buy the book. You won't be sorry.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Do not pass this play up!
By Chris R. Richards
At first glance the play seems like it may be quite ordinary. it features the relationship dramas of four young college students in a tangled web of couples swapping and reconciling. As a playwright many of Labute's styles can be attributed to other influences. The punctuated rhythms of his dialogue and ear for exact phrases and slang resemble Mamet, and he is a well trained playwright- well versed in contemporary theater (particularly his most recent play in England and its Bond influences).
Labute's talent however seems to lie in his ideas on cruelty and bizarre relationship dynamics and sadistic, dark plot twists which are a feature of his first two films, certainly this play, and his latest work "Distance from Here." In this particular work Labute infuses ideas about the nature and role of art in the world into his relationships. While three of the main characters are somewhat typical midwestern middle class liberal arts students, their world is shaken by an art student that enters into their lives and begins to use them as her palette. She transforms life itself into a work of art through her manipulations. The twisted dynamics, anguish and frustration in the play is painful to experience and particularly visceral.
Meanwhile, the form ties into the themes. As a piece of live theater the audience nearly becomes complicit in the crime by patronizing a work of art that features lives torn apart and altered on stage. The climax in a lecture theater with its twist was probably staged in such a way that the audience became participants and active in the main character's anguish and undoing.
While this piece does have its flaws, it is a gripping and incredible play that functions not only well as a drama, but as a sophisticated discussion of the theater. This play is conscious about why theater is a fascinating art form and uses that to its advantage.
22 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
"Fear No Art?"
By Stanley H. Nemeth
Several years ago, PBS distributed to subscribers a particularly annoying, idiotic button announcing that with-it people "Fear No Art." Even though such heralded types as Plato and Tolstoy had worried about the artist's frightening power to create as well as to wreak havoc on the social order, PBS thought it knew better. Artists these days are basically nice people, it held, and thus they will necessarily use their powers of self-expression only to enrich the lives of everyone in society. Consequently, we must be open to and accepting of whatever an artist comes up with - even a crucifix in a bottle of urine - lest we be thought narrow-minded or indeed intolerant. Neil Labute looking at the current scene with wide open eyes challenges the complacency in this conventional thinking about the "nice" artist and life. In "The Shape Of Things," he vividly brings home to us the truth in Jonathan Swift's observation that "nice people are full of nasty ideas." Set among campus Me-First postmoderns who delve into art and engage in tangled "relationships," Labute's play gives its characters free rein to reveal themselves as both pathetically and hilariously stunted human specimens. Their seeming one-dimensionality is by satiric design, as are those hints of rage and clueless meanness which occasionally ooze out from beneath their laid-back surfaces to enrich the key moments of dramatic encounter. Like many of the sardonic Ibsen's characters, Labute's too have snarling trolls lurking just beneath their "nice," ever so tolerant, "non-judgmental" public selves. Most significantly, his charismatic, rebellious central female figure, her inner person reduced wholly and subhumanly to warped aesthetic concerns, emerges as a satiric embodiment of the postmodern artist as essentially destructive creator.
To any mainstream critic who goes to plays and demands "positive" or "compassionate" endorsements of the received ideas we hold or our self-absorbed lives as we generally live them now, Labute has little to offer. Refreshingly free of such frothy, mindless cheer, the playwright instead skewers unquestioned contemporary notions of art's necessary beneficence and those of the glories of untrammeled individualism. Human nature and art, he reveals as satiric dramatist, are both larger and more problematic than such currently genteel, fashionable conceptions of them. Far from being "non-original" in his ideas, Labute more than any other current playwright provokingly calls into question the actual - not the putative - received ideas about art and life which are thought "cutting edge" in our time. If anyone writing drama today could produce a fully realized masterwork on the way we live now, I suspect it would be Neil Labute.
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