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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date Published: 2001-11-15
ISBN-13:9780571212460ISBN:0571212468
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780571212460ISBN:0571212468
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Date Published: 2001-11-01
ISBN-13:9780571212460ISBN:0571212468
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780571212460ISBN:0571212468
Description: New. A startling dissection of cruelty and artistic creation from the author of "In the Company of Men" and "Your Friends and Neighbors" In a modern version of Adam's seduction by Eve, "The Shape of Things" pits gentle, awkward, overweight Adam against ex... read more
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I acted the part of Evelyn (yes, we actresses talk to ourselves alone in our rooms, it's part of our job), and experienced such a sense of the character's detachment, her entrenched coldness and superficiality.
For an actress actually performing this role, the question arises - What exactly is this character's history, who is she really, and what has led her to shut down her compassion? She must have had some sort of painful past experience that catapulted her toward experiencing all of life with the alienation effect that Brecht would have his audiences undergo at performances of his plays: seeing people (or characters) as symbols rather than humans, as representations and messages that ought to be examined with a detached and analytical mind.
The darker side of these themes is recognizing how such a detached view of real people enters our own reality, how often our experience of someone is more constructed in our own minds or colored by past encounters than it is drawn from who they truly are.
We're all human. We've all been guilty of making assumptions about others, of grafting upon them the identity of someone seemingly similar from our past - "Oh, he's just like so-and-so was. I know what's going on. Guys always do this to me." And so "he" is conveniently boxed into the category of "Guys: the species that hurts me". Cleanly stored away, tied into a familiar pattern that doesn't threaten our habitual worldview.
This conclusion about this "him" may or may not have been anywhere close to the truth. It might just have been our way of sculpting someone into something that they're not, something that gives them a clear place in our world, something that would be convenient for them to embody, given our own paradigm for how people are, or how our life is, or how relationships unfold.
How often do we sculpt people in our own minds - both into our greatest dreams, and into our worst nightmares - without an objective perspective of who they authentically are?
Always, I suppose. According to Adam and Evelyn's many exchanges on the matter, everything is, to a certain extent, subjective."
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