David Mamet

Comedy

2m, 2f

Bare stage, movable props.

The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago "takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game," according to The New York Times. Two male office workers, Danny and Bernie, are on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970's. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are lovers as well as roommates. The other couple, Bernie and Joan, seem to have the politics of sex down pat but are as confused as their more naive counterparts. After much comic drama, the two men end as they started, talking a good game in the local bar.

Published with The Duck Variations.

"Mamet has the most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger." - The Village Voice

"Marvelously observant...A glittering mosaic of tiny, deadly muzzle flashes from the war between men and women among the filing cabinets and single bars." - The New York Times

FEE: $45 per performance OR $100 when performed with Duck Variations

Slightly Restricted

Read more about Mamet: David Mamet: A Life in the Theatre

Other David Mamet titles available from Samuel French include:
American Buffalo
Bobby Gould in Hell
The Cherry Orchard
Dark Pony
The Disappearance of the Jews
Dramatic Sketches and Monologues
Duck Variations
Edmond
The Frog Prince
Glengarry Glen Ross
Goldberg Street
Keep Your Pantheon
Lakeboat
A Life in the Theatre
The Luftmensch
Mr. Happiness
November
The Old Neighborhood
The Poet and the Rent
Race
Reunion
Reunion: Three Plays by David Mamet
The Sanctity of Marriage
School
The Shawl
Speed the Plow
Squirrels
Uncle Vanya (Adaptation)
The Water Engine
The Woods