Race

by David Mamet

Overview

Drama / Characters: 3 males 1 female / Interior set / Multiple Award-winning playwright/director David Mamet tackles America's most controversial topic in a provocative new tale of sex guilt and bold accusations. Two lawyers find themselves defending a wealthy white executive charged with raping a black woman. When a new legal assistant gets involved in the case the opinions that boil beneath explode to the surface. When David Mamet turns the spotlight on what we think but can't say dangerou

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573698361
Publisher:	Concord Theatricals
Publication date:	08/23/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	80
Sales rank:	1,083,839
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.17(d)

Editorial Reviews

“To call David Mamet’s language scathing, snappy and whip-smart is true, but trite. So I won’t. I’ll instead refer to the playwright’s words as poetry: not the lyrical lines conjuring images of flowers, but the exceedingly clever brutality that delivers a verbal punch to the gut.” –Chicago Theater Beat

“Scalpel-edged intelligence! RACE is an examination of cultural conscience and paranoia, and a topical detective story.” –Ben Brantley, New York Times

“A high-voltage melodrama, iRACE is unafraid to raise painful questions while dispensing prickly ideas and provocative dialogue amid steady suspense. Mamet adroitly mixes comic darts with tragic arrows, and the play is full of wry jokes, epigrammatic jolts and acrid, cheeky provocations.” –John Simon, Bloomberg News

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