Race - Intellectually salaciousDeep in its gut, Mamets gripping play argues everything in America is still about race. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Tasty dialogue, spiky confrontations and more than occasionally biting observationsRACE riffs artfully on the subtleties of discrimination and guilt, resentment and shame, and its ambiguities appear designed to stir audiences into testy debates. David Rooney, Variety Edgily compellingFew writers can grip an audience like David Mamet. He tackles urgent themes head on, and often writes with the brutality of a sawn-off shotgun held at the spectators head. Telegraph (UK) Fascinating and dramatically charged, Mamets provocative, hot-topic play is anything but simple. The questions and answers posed add up to an intriguing study of perception. Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press When a rich white man is accused of raping a younger African American woman, he looks to a multicultural law firm for his defense. But even as his lawyersone of them white, another black begin to strategize, they must confront their own biases and assumptions about race relations in America. David Mamet is a playwright, essayist and screenwriter who directs for both the stage and film. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Glengarry Glen Ross. His plays include China Doll, Race, The Anarchist, American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, November, The Cryptogram, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Duck Variations, Reunion, The Blue Hour, The Shawl, Bobby gould in Hell, Edmond, Romance, The Old Neighborhood and his adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance.


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 ⚡️Book Title : Race
⚡Book Author : David Mamet
⚡Page : 96 pages
⚡Published January 11th 2011 by Theatre Communications Group (first published August 23rd 2010)

Race

Intellectually salaciousDeep in its gut, Mamets gripping play argues everything in America is still about race. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Tasty dialogue, spiky confrontations and more than occasionally biting observationsRACE riffs artfully on the subtleties of discrimination and guilt, resentment and shame, and its ambiguities appear designed to stir audiences into testy debates. David Rooney, Variety Edgily compellingFew writers can grip an audience like David Mamet. He tackles urgent themes head on, and often writes with the brutality of a sawn-off shotgun held at the spectators head. Telegraph (UK) Fascinating and dramatically charged, Mamets provocative, hot-topic play is anything but simple. The questions and answers posed add up to an intriguing study of perception. Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press When a rich white man is accused of raping a younger African American woman, he looks to a multicultural law firm for his defense. But even as his lawyersone of them white, another black begin to strategize, they must confront their own biases and assumptions about race relations in America. David Mamet is a playwright, essayist and screenwriter who directs for both the stage and film. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Glengarry Glen Ross. His plays include China Doll, Race, The Anarchist, American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, November, The Cryptogram, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Duck Variations, Reunion, The Blue Hour, The Shawl, Bobby gould in Hell, Edmond, Romance, The Old Neighborhood and his adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance.