FREE THE SHAPE OF THINGS PDF Dayle Ann Dodds,Julie Lacome | 32 pages | 07 Mar 1996 | Candlewick Press (MA) | 9781564026989 | English | Cambridge, MA, United States The Shape of Things by Kelly Reemtsen at Albertz Benda - Artland By the end of the play, I felt no sympathy for anyone. Not to be confused with being The Shape of Things in to a character and having a personal dislike of said character. This was more a disinterest in the characters as each was a two-dimensional caricature for different aspects of gender binaries. The Shape of Things comes off less like an engaging, emotionally distant, woman, and more like an unintelligible mashup of every middle- school insecurity a heterosexual man would have about women. Adam is such the model of the. Adam is such the model of the "sensitive" man that I wasn't sure if LaBute even intended for me to ever take the character seriously. I wasn't looking at characters so much as empty models of gender The Shape of Things. Which themselves could be engaging if their representation of those norms wasn't the entirety of their characterization. By the time the twist ending came around, I was so emotionally disinterested in the characters that the shock didn't matter. To LaBute's credit, the twist was unexpected, but it didn't elicit any visceral reaction so much as the kind of kudos I would give a particularly well grown fern. Interesting in execution, but nothing to write home about. What that something is, I'm not sure, The Shape of Things based on the raw material, there is little way to go but up. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. A startling dissection of cruelty and artistic creation from the author of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors In The Shape of Things modern version of Adam's seduction by Eve, The Shape of Things pits gentle, awkward, overweight Adam against experienced, analytical, amoral Evelyn, a graduate student in art. After a chance meeting at a museum, Evelyn and Adam embark on an in A startling dissection of cruelty and artistic creation from the author of In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors In The Shape of Things modern version of Adam's seduction by Eve, The Shape of Things pits gentle, awkward, overweight Adam against experienced, analytical, amoral Evelyn, a The Shape of Things student in art. After a chance meeting at a museum, Evelyn and Adam embark on an intense relationship that causes shy and principled Adam to go to extraordinary lengths, including cosmetic surgery, and a betrayal of his best friend, to improve his appearance and character. In the process, Evelyn's subtle and insistent coaching results in a reconstruction of Adam's fundamental moral character. Only in a final and shocking exhibition does Evelyn reveal the nature of her interest in Adam, of her detached artist's perspective and sense of authority--to her, Adam is no more than "flesh Natural, beautiful, and malleable. To what extent is an artist licensed to shape and change her medium or to alter the work of another artist? What is acceptable artistic material? At what point does creation become manipulation, and at what point does creation destroy? Or, is the new Adam, handsome and confident if heart broken, an admirable result of the most challenging artistic endeavor? The Shape of Things challenges society's most deeply entrenched ideas about art, manipulation, and love. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published July 8th by Faber Faber first published The Shape of Things 15th More Details Original Title. United States of America. Other Editions 3. The Shape of Things Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Shape of Thingsplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Shape of Things. May 18, Xicano rated it did not like it Shelves: fiction. Adam is such the model of the By the end of the play, I felt no sympathy for anyone. View 1 comment. Aug 14, Tracey rated it it was amazing Shelves: theatreThe Shape of Things What I loved about this play was the no one comes out unscathed. Each of the characters story arc is complex and you are never really sure of their motives. The role of Evelyn is without doubt one of the best female roles I have read on the page and seen on the screen. She can be played as the cool heartless bitch but there is always the opportunity to bring some empathy to her. You should be left wondering at the end whether she ever did care for Adam or not. I love LaBute's writing, it is hone What I loved about this play was the no one comes out unscathed. I love LaBute's The Shape of Things, it is honest, brutal and insightful. He creates wonderful characters and theatre that is very entertaining. Apr 19, Laura St rated it it was amazing Shelves: ooh-la-lawhyplays. To say that this scenario feels worse than "The Handmaid's Tale" would be an understatement. Big Yikes. Bone-chilling and fascinating. And weirdly human, despite its inhumane outlook. Oct The Shape of Things, Judy Li rated it really liked it Shelves: american-theater. Modern day Frankenstein. I had to read "The shape of things" by Neil Labute for my English class. Before we started reading it, we had the topic "gender roles", so the play is a bit about it. It's also about art, about friendship The Shape of Things love and hate nad the things going this these things. Story: But mainly, it's focus is on the change of Adam, one of the four characters. When he meets Evelyn, he changes a lot, on the outside and on the inside. His friends, Jenny and Phillip, are suspicous of this The Shape of Things new Adam, and they bla I had to read "The shape of things" by Neil Labute for my English class. His friends, Jenny and Phillip, The Shape of Things suspicous of this whole new Adam, and they blame Evelyn for that. They four of them have a row about Adam 's change and so Adam has to chose: his friends or Evelyn. Characters: The play has interesting characters. First, there is Adam. Shy, boring, the definition of a normal guy without friends. He works at a museum, where he learns to know a girl. Second, there is Evelyn. She is self-confident, pretty and cool. She is an art student and she The Shape of Things Adam to be her boyfriend. And to be more muscular, more pretty, to wear different clothes, a new hairstyle. And to be more self-confident, to give his friends up for her. She never insists on Adam doing all this things, she just suggests them. However, in the The Shape of Things it turns out she is not who she was supposed to be. Really interesting. Then we have Jenny and Phillip, the engaged couple. Phillip, the best friend of Adam and Jenny, a girl Adam was in love in The Shape of Things, but always to shy to ask her out. They disagree on Adam's change first. Jenny think, it's great, cause she is a naive, blonde, sweet girl. On the other side, Phillip dislikes it, he likes the "normal, old" Adam and doesn't trust Evelyn. He is right. Writing: The language is very easy to understand. I rushed through the book, because there isn't much text on each page. Watch The Shape Of Things Online - STARZ Adapted from his own stage play with the original cast intact, this installment in Neil LaBute's ongoing examination of the war between men and women is a bitter variation on the tale of Pygmalion and Galatea that doesn't miss a single cheap shot. La Bute's Pygmalion is Mercy College art student Evelyn Rachel Weiszwho meets dumpy, self-effacing English literature major Adam Paul Rudd in the campus museum, where she plans to commit an The Shape of Things of philosophical vandalism. Adam screws up his courage to ask this firebrand for a date and, to his amazement, she accepts; what could someone so smart, stylish and beautiful possibly want with him? It quickly becomes clear that she wants a project, since she immediately sets about changing Adam. She gently nudges him to lose weight, get a haircut, stop biting his nails and invest in a new wardrobe. Adam's macho best friend, Philip Frederick The Shape of Thingswho's engaged to beautiful but insecure Jenny Gretchen The Shape of Thingson whom Adam once nursed a secret crush, pegs Evelyn for a manipulative bitch. But Adam's hooked: She's the most exciting thing that's ever happened to him. Yes, she's polemical, pretentious and pushy, but she's also hot and seductively self-confident. No-one ever looked twice at Adam before she started polishing his rough edges. Now he's a bona fide cute guy, and Jenny's admitting shyly that she's kind of attracted to him, her engagement to the self-centered, overbearing Philip notwithstanding.