Oleanna: A Play -- David Mamet

In a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into 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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> David Mamet<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 05/04/1993<br><b>Pages:</b> 96<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.22lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.20d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679745365<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including <i>Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the Dog, </i>and the Oscar-nominated <i>The Verdict</i>. His more than twenty plays include <i>Oleanna, The Cryptogram, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, </i>and the Pulitzer Prizewinning <i>Glengarry Glen Ross</i>. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, and Goddard College, and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.</p>