Romance

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.

Themes

• American drama
• PS3563.A4345 R66 2007