num_pages: 72
description: Pulitzer Prizeâ€”winning playwright David Mametâ€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.Itâ€s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, whoâ€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.
language: English
title: Romance - Acting Edition
titlecomplete: Romance - Acting Edition
genres: Audiobook, Theatre, Drama, Plays, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 212
publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.