Le relazioni disfunzionali nella scrittura scenica di Neil LaBute

Dysfunctional Relationships in Neil LaBute’s Stage Writing
The article represents an analysis of Neil LaBute’s dramaturgy,
in particular his play, Bash and the “beauty” trilogy – Reason to be
Pretty, The Shape of Things, Fat Pig – where individual existence
and actions are expressed as a direct consequence of someone’s appearance,
determining, for better or for worse, the human soul.
The reflection explores the scenic world of the playwright starting
from the influences of American authors such as David Mamet,
Arthur Kopit, Sam Shepard and English authors such as Harold Pinter,
Tom Stoppard, John Osborne. LaBute’s dramaturgy consists of direct
and crude plots and an extreme and grotesque fragmented language
that opposes modernist dogmas, trying to show to the audience the
contradictions of contemporary mass society and human existence. The
aim of the text is to highlight how LaBute abandons the paradox of the
deconstruction in the postmodern theater, as well as discontinuity and
excess in order to redefine the link between an aesthetics of the body
and the actions that follow it.