{"id":678,"date":"2004-05-13T15:25:37","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T15:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2004\/05\/the_shape_of_th\/"},"modified":"2004-05-13T15:25:37","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T15:25:37","slug":"the_shape_of_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/the_shape_of_th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shape of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the new West End theatre version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newambassadors.com\/whatson\/show_production.php?p=p5\">The Shape of Things<\/a> last night by Neil LaBute. It&#8217;s based on his <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0308878\/\">film<\/a> of the same name, which I must admit I missed. I did see the other two in his &#8220;battle of the sexes&#8221; trilogy, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119361\/\">In The Company of Men<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119517\/\">Your Friends and Neighbors<\/a> [sic], and I knew basically very little about the plot before I went (OK &#8211; it was a freebie. Usually I&#8217;m in the habit of learning a little about the productions I see before I buy tickets).<br \/>\nThe plot revolves around a young sculptor (Alicia Witt) meeting a part-time museum attendent (Enzo Cilenti), and their relationship forming. We are also introduced to two other friends. Slowly but surely, it becomes apparent that changes are afoot. I don&#8217;t want to spoil the surprise, and to be honest, even reading the one line synopsis on IMDB gives the game away (and I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t).<br \/>\nWitt is particularly good (I remember her mostly as Cybil Shepherd&#8217;s daughter in the eponymous sitcom), and will no doubt attract some headlines for one particular scene.<br \/>\nThe whole thing is wrapped up nicely in about an hour and forty minutes with no interval, and the set is, for the most part, exceptionally minimalist &#8211; but then it doesn&#8217;t really matter. Of course I&#8217;m curious in seeing the film now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the new West End theatre version of The Shape of Things last night by Neil LaBute. It&#8217;s based on his film of the same name, which I must admit I missed. I did see the other two in his &#8220;battle of the sexes&#8221; trilogy, In The Company of Men and Your Friends and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}