The Shape of Things

(Paperback, Main)

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A drama that peels back the skin of two modern-day relationships.

Reviews

"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

Author Bio

Neil LaBute was born in 1963 in Detroit, Michigan. He is the writer/director of the films In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, and author of the stage-plays Bash, The Shape of Things (which he also adapted for the screen) and, most recently, The Mercy Seat. He has also directed the feature films Nurse Betty and Possession, the latter adapted from the novel by A. S. Byatt.