Race
by David Mamet

"Intellectually salacious […] Gripping […] Rapid-fire Mametian style […] Mamet’s new play argues, everything in America – and this play throws sex, rape, the law, employment and relationships into its 90 minutes of stage wrangling"

— is still about race." - Chicago Tribune

"Scalpel-edged intelligence!"

— The New York Times

"Provocative and profane!"

— NY 1

"Mamet is most concerned with the power and treachery of language: a line of dialogue vital to the prosecution’s case is cynically rewritten by the defense. Mamet’s larger contention is that attempts to create a more equal and tolerant society have made race an unsayable word […] brilliantly contrives here a moment in which the single most taboo sexual expletive is ignored by an audience which then gasps at the word “black” […] Mamet remains American theatre’s most urgent five-letter word."

— The Guardian