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Sexual Perversity In Chicago, And, The Duck Variations
by David Mamet
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Awards & Recognition
Obie Award
Winner! 1976 Obie Award for Best New American Play
Synopsis
Comedy Characters: 2 males 2 females Bare stage movable props
The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago "takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game " according to The New York Times.
Two male office workers Danny and Bernie are on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970's.
Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are lovers as well as roommates.
The other couple Bernie and Joan seem to have the politi
Press Reviews
"The most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger."
— Village Voice
"Mamet's exchanges show an awesome fidelity to the visceral way a conversation can chase its tail, overlap, fade out, or double back on itself."
— The Chicago Reader
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 2010
Binding Paperback
Pages 96
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573600418
ISBN-10 0573600414
LCC PS3563.A4345 S4 1977
Sexual Perversity In Chicago, And, The Duck Variations is a American comedy play written by David Mamet and published by Samuel French (2010).
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