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Start: My task here tonight is to unveil...

Evelyn

The Shape of Things

Neil LaBute

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Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 9
Time & Place
An auditorium
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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Start: My task here tonight is to unveil my semester’s work, explain it and then smile and shake hands, leaving a few of you to examine it, grade it, etc. in essence, be at your mercy. Which is fine, since I realize I have been my entire academic life-at someone’s mercy-that is-which reaches back to when I was five.

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End: I follow in a long tradition of artists who believe that there is no such concept as religion, or government, community, or even family. There is only art. Art that must be created. Whatever the cost. With that in mind, I present you with my untitled sculpture and supporting materials tonight. Thank you.

Neil LaBute, The Shape of Things, Faber and Faber, 2001, pp. 117-122.

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