New Director's Series:
The Shape of Things

THE SHAPE OF THINGS by Neil LaBute February 27-March 13, 2004

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. The Shape of Things is an intense and disturbing study not only of the uses of power within human relationships, but also of the ethics involved in the relationship of art and life- challenging society's most deeply entrenched ideas about art, manipulation, and love. Neil LaBute is a playwright and filmmaker whose plays include Bash and The Mercy Seat. His films include, In the Company of Men (which received the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Feature and the Filmmakers Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival), Your Friends and Neighbors, and Nurse Betty. Director Eileen Rooney is a recent graduate in directing from U-Mass Boston, where her directing credits included A.R. Gurney's The Problem and UMB's new playwright series. She has worked behind the scenes on numerous TheatreZone productions including Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies, Blood Wedding/Bodas de Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca, Anger Box by Jeff Goode, and Shopping and Fucking by Mark Ravenhill.

Cast: Vladimir Aseneta Becca A. Lewis Megan Raye Manzi Greg Rapoza Directed by Eileen Rooney Stage Manager: Angel Garcia Sound Design: Fay Gerbes Lighting Design: Danielle Fauteux Jacques

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