Oleanna
In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault....
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In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679745365 (067974536X)
Publish date: May 4th 1993
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 96
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Read For School,
American,
20th Century,
Adult,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Feminism
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