The Shape of Things

The Athena Theatre Company presents The Shape of Things, by Neil LaBute. Scott Schutzman directs.

The play begins in an art museum with the chance meeting of Evelyn, an analytical and perhaps amoral art student, and Adam, a clumsy introvert. They begin an intense relationship that causes shy and principled Adam to go to extraordinary lengths to become the man that he thinks Evelyn wants him to be. Through Evelyn’s subtle persuasion and coaching, Adam’s character is reconstructed and eventually deconstructed. In Adam, LaBute shows the frightening lengths that people will go to become what they believe others want them to be.