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Title: The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute ISBN: 0-571-21246-8 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Everything is subjective.
Comment: I don't know if my fellow reviewers failed to actually read the play or just aren't very articulate when it comes to expressing their thoughts, but to me, The Shape of Things is possibly the most brilliant stand alone piece of theatre-- or even literature released in recent years. While any description at all pales miserably compared to actually reading (Or seeing a GOOD production as it can suck), all that is necessary to know is that it is about the brutal, honest, and painful compromise between love and art. Take it from me. Read it. Just do it because I'm a supercool person and I told you to. For whatever reason, just make sure you read it. You'll understand once you do, but until then, you will always fall somewhere just short of enlightened. Peace.
Rating: 5
Summary: this one is a winner
Comment: The reviewer from seattle must be a real jerk, or most probably, another of those frustrated would-be writers who can't get their work published or produced. That's the only explanation for his or her head-scratchingly stupid review of this wonderful play. Just go online and check--there are productions of LaBute's plays all over the world. All the time. Don't listen to a jealous freak when you can be enjoying a really good play. THE SHAPE OF THINGS is funny, startling, clever and brutal. It features great roles for four actors and is as much fun to read as it is to watch. Or be in, for that matter. I've played one of the roles in a California production and it was fantastic--the audience loved it. So will you, if you take a chance and read it.
Hope you enjoy it as much as i did!
Rating: 1
Summary: Neil the Tiresome
Comment: How do you know when you're dealing with a [no good] playwright? When his plays are produced once in a New York or London, but then are never picked up for production by regional theaters.
This is the fate of Neil LaBute's works -- none of his plays, to my knowledge, have been embraced with any enthusiasm after their initial productions. Once produced, LaBute's play gather dust. Why? Well, because LaBute is a [dud]. His plays aren't good.
In THE SHAPE OF THINGS, LaBute trots out yet another uber-jerk, this time in the guise of a young art student who undertakes to manipulate her newly acquired boyfriend into something new. This character is cut from the same cloth as LaBute's previous meanspirited, self-involved, uncaring creations. Nor does LaBute offer anything new in the way of plot -- the uber-jerk is on a juggernaut that none of the other characters can stop. So much for suspense.
Me and the American regional theater community agree: LaBute isn't worth production.
You've been warned.
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Title: The Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute ISBN: 0571211380 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 21 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Bash: 3 Plays by Neil Labute ISBN: 1585670243 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Distance from Here by Neil Labute ISBN: 1585673714 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Three Days of Rain: The American Plan; The Author's Voice; Hurrah at Last by Richard Greenberg ISBN: 0802136362 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Take Me Out by Richard Greenberg ISBN: 0571211186 Publisher: Faber & Faber Pub. Date: 06 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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