Oleanna

ISBN: 0413626202

Author: MAMET, David

Condition: Used

In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse

This play was published to coincide with its British premiere, directed by Harold Pinter, at the Royal Court Theatre, London.