Romance
by David Mamet
What readers are saying
Readers have mixed feelings about the play, with many finding it funnier when performed than when simply read. While some praise its sharp dialogue and humorous take on serious subjects, others feel it lacks depth and can be overly silly. Overall, opinions are divided on Mamet's approach to farce and whether it succeeds as intended.
Synopsis
Pulitzer Prize--winning playwright David Mamet's "Romance" is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors.
It's hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines.
He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who's a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney.
The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong.
And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place.
Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices, and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity.
Press Reviews
"It made me weep with delight…ROMANCE is funny. Extremely funny.” —Wall Street Journal. ”A wild ride…An outrageous, hectic comedy composed in the hyperliterate pro-fanity that made him a legend…For fans of Mamet at his most joyfully vicious, it's everything you ever wanted.“ —New York Magazine. ”An exhilarating spectacle…[Mamet] is a connoisseur of fiasco.“ —The New Yorker. ”A fiesta of forbidden laughter…A giddy, glorious, bad-taste valentine…"
— Newsday (NY)
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Romance is a American comedy play written by David Mamet and published by Dramatists Play Service in New York (2007).
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Dramatists Play Service · 2007 · 72 pp
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