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By Mary Therese Biebel mbiebel@timesleader.com
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When you meet Adam in the play “The Shape of Things,” you realize he’s not in the best shape he could be.

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Cast members Lydia Traill of Kingston (Evelyn), Lukas Tomasacci of Shickshinny (Adam), Mandy Erndl of Wilkes-Barre (Jenny) and James Holland of Moosic (Phillip) rehearse ’The Shape of Things’ for their performance at Wyoming Seminary.

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IF YOU GO

What: ‘The Shape of Things’

Who: Gaslight Theatre

When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday through June 11 and 3 p.m. matinee June 12 , with a ‘pay what you can’ preview at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday

Where: Buckingham Performing Arts Center, 201 N. Sprague Ave., Kingston

Tickets: $10

Info: 824-8266 or www.gaslight.theatre.org

“To some extent, he’s a little awkward, a little not-put-together,” said Sean McKeown, who is directing the show for Gaslight Theatre. “He’s a little overweight, his hair’s messed up, that kind of stuff.”

Enter Evelyn, who seems very interested in helping Adam improve.

“She’s an interesting character,” McKeown said. “She seems to be together in the way that he’s not … but you realize through the course of the play she’s got probably worse problems.

“Her problems are ethical and moral rather than being about having charisma or being attractive,” the director said.

Preferring not to give away too much of the story, McKeown doesn’t want to reveal the true reason behind Evelyn’s interest in Adam.

McKeown discovered the play, written by contemporary playwright Neil LaBute, several years ago and has wanted to bring it to the stage ever since.

At first, he wanted to play Adam -- but realized the timing was wrong for that.

“Adam is about 22, and I was probably too old to play Adam when I was 26,” said McKeown, who is now 33.

His young cast includes Lukas Tomasacci of Shickshinny as Adam and Lydia Traill of Kingston as Evelyn.