David Mamet

Race

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Produktbeschreibung

Drama / Characters: 3 males 1 female / Interior set / Multiple Award-winning playwright/director David Mamet tackles America's most controversial topic in a provocative new tale of sex guilt and bold accusations. Two lawyers find themselves defending a wealthy white executive charged with raping a black woman. When a new legal assistant gets involved in the case the opinions that boil beneath explode to the surface. When David Mamet turns the spotlight on what we think but can't say dangerou

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Concord Theatricals
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 127mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 96g
• ISBN-13: 9780573698361
• ISBN-10: 0573698368
• Artikelnr.: 31801480

Autorenporträt

David Mamet, 1947 in Chicago geboren, Dramatiker (u. a. "Oleanna", "Hanglage Meerblick", für das er 1984 den Pulitzerpreis erhielt), Drehbuchautor ("Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt", "Die Unbestechlichen") und Regisseur ("Haus der Spiele") zählt zu den wichtigsten amerikanischen Autoren der Gegenwart. Zuletzt wurde sein Drehbuch "Wag the Dog" mit Robert De Niro und Dustin Hoffman von Barry Levinson verfilmt. Sein letzter eigener Film war "Spanish Prisoner" ("Die unsichtbare Falle").

Rezensionen

To call David Mamet's language scathing, snappy and whip-smart is true, but trite. So I won't. I'll instead refer to the playwright's words as poetry: not the lyrical lines conjuring images of flowers, but the exceedingly clever brutality that delivers a verbal punch to the gut." Chicago Theater Beat

Scalpel-edged intelligence! RACE is an examination of cultural conscience and paranoia, and a topical detective story." Ben Brantley, New York Times

A high-voltage melodrama, iRACE is unafraid to raise painful questions while dispensing prickly ideas and provocative dialogue amid steady suspense. Mamet adroitly mixes comic darts with tragic arrows, and the play is full of wry jokes, epigrammatic jolts and acrid, cheeky provocations." John Simon, Bloomberg News

?To call David Mamet's language scathing, snappy and whip-smart is true, but trite. So I won't. I'll instead refer to the playwright's words as poetry: not the lyrical lines conjuring images of flowers, but the exceedingly clever brutality that delivers a verbal punch to the gut." ?Chicago Theater Beat

?Scalpel-edged intelligence! RACE is an examination of cultural conscience and paranoia, and a topical detective story." ?Ben Brantley, New York Times

?A high-voltage melodrama, iRACE is unafraid to raise painful questions while dispensing prickly ideas and provocative dialogue amid steady suspense. Mamet adroitly mixes comic darts with tragic arrows, and the play is full of wry jokes, epigrammatic jolts and acrid, cheeky provocations." ?John Simon, Bloomberg News