The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute is one of the plays that make up the “Beauty Trilogy,” written by the American playwright between 2001 and 2008: Marta Cortellazzo Wiel has decided to stage it in order to explore human relationships, their fragility, and the processes of manipulation they can be subjected to.
In this story, a young artist forcefully enters the lives of three friends, disrupting the balance of their well-established bonds and influencing their very identities. The sparkling dialogue among the four protagonists - by Christian di Filippo, Celeste Gugliandolo, Marcello Spinetta, and Beatrice Vecchione - conceals a silent violence and ever-tenser psychological conditions on the brink of disaster. Only at the end do they reveal the ruins left by the struggle.