Seen from the perspective of the play’s protagonist, a middle-aged professor named John, David Mamet’s Oleanna is a nightmarish tale; John’s fervent and earnest attempts to educate and connect with Carol, his failing undergraduate student, backfire when she files a sexual harassment complaint with the tenure committee. Suddenly, everything in John’s life is in danger [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Fly-Over State excerpt, by Emma Straub
October 11, 2009 – 5:08 am
Margaret had a tight mouth, small features and the personality to match, but she was in charge of the neighborhood committee, so she extended an invitation to the annual gathering at our mutual neighbor’s house across the street. They’d invited over the local policeman and a firefighter and all the dogs and children. It was [...]
Eric Rosenblum on David Mamet’s Keep Your Pantheon and School
October 7, 2009 – 12:32 pm
Don’t expect standard David Mamet fare at Atlantic Theater’s current mainstage offering of two of the playwright’s one-acts. The evening’s main attraction, Keep Your Pantheon is a farcical romp through ancient Rome featuring a group of horny homosexual thespians trying to come up with the rent for their acting studio. Not exactly a typical Mamet [...]
Sea Wall at the Bush Theatre
October 7, 2009 – 1:03 am
On Monday evening, Simon Stephens‘ Sea Wall premiered at the Bush Theatre in West London. Consisting of a thirty minute monologue by actor Andrew Scott, the play works perfectly in the theatre’s intimate setting. Scott’s performance was adroitly adapted to the theatre’s location in which a steady stream of traffic stage left and rumbling overground trains [...]
