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Neil LaBute

    Neil LaBute è un regista americano le cui opere approfondiscono gli aspetti più oscuri della psiche umana. Esplora frequentemente relazioni interpersonali complesse e spesso inquietanti, esponendone le motivazioni nascoste e il potenziale distruttivo. Le sue sceneggiature e opere teatrali sono caratterizzate da un crudo realismo e da un esame provocatorio della moralità, che costringe il pubblico a mettere in discussione le proprie percezioni di giusto e sbagliato. L'opera di LaBute si pone come una masterclass nello studio della natura umana, lasciando un impatto duraturo.

    The Shape of Things
    Some Girl(s)
    • The Shape of Things

      • 96pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      Informationen zur Reihenausgabe: Lesen macht Spaß - umso mehr mit Lektüren, die Ihre Schüler/-innen auch allein zu Hause bewältigen können. Mit diesem Literaturangebot ist das problemlos möglich. Die ungekürzten Originaltexte eignen sich für die Jahrgangsstufen 10 bis 13 und enthalten Annotationen zu schwierigen Wörtern. Zu jedem Band gibt es ein Teacher's Manual mit Kopiervorlagen, Klausurvorschlägen und zum Teil Audio-CDs. Interpretationshilfen als Zusatzangebot für Schüler/-innen Zu einigen Lektüren der Cornelsen Senior English Library gibt es ergänzende Interpretationshilfen mit wichtigen Informationen zum Werk, Kurzbiographien der Autoren, Wortschatzhilfen und Auflistungen zentraler Zitate sowie einer Musterklausur.

      The Shape of Things2017
      3,7
    • Some Girl(s)

      • 104pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      Your career as a writer is blossoming, your beautiful, young fiancee is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side - so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you're a man, it's probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man's odyssey through four hotel rooms, as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (whom he's already broken up with). In grand LaBute fashion, this by turns outrageously funny and deadly serious portrait of the artist as a young seducer casts a truthful, hilarious light on a typical young American male as he wanders through the heart of darkness that is himself. "[LaBute's] view of modern men and women is unsparing ... [He] is holding up a pitiless mirror to ourselves. We may not like what we see, but we can't deny that - if only in some dark corner of our souls - it is there." -Jacques le Sourd, The Journal News "LaBute ... continues to probe the fascinating dark side of individualism ... [His] great gift is to live in and to chronicle that murky area of not-knowing, which mankind spends much of its waking life denying." -John Lahr, The New Yorker"

      Some Girl(s)2011
      3,5