num_pages: 96
description: Intellectually salaciousDeep in its gut Mamets gripping play argues everything in America is still about race. Chris Jones Chicago TribuneTasty dialogue spiky confrontations and more than occasionally biting observations RACE riffs artfully on the subtleties of discrimination and guilt resentment and shame and its ambiguities appear designed to stir audiences into testy debates. David Rooney VarietyEdgily compellingFew writers can grip an audience like David Mamet. He tackles urgent themes head on and often writes with the brutality of a sawn-off shotgun held at the spectators head.  Telegraph (UK)Fascinating and dramatically charged Mamets provocative hot-topic play is anything but simple. The questions and answers posed add up to an intriguing study of perception. Michael Kuchwara Associated PressWhen a rich white man is accused of raping a younger African American woman he looks to a multicultural law firm for his defense. But even as his lawyersone of them white another black begin to strategize they must confront their own biases and assumptions about race relations in America.David Mamet is a playwright essayist and screenwriter who directs for both the stage and film. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Glengarry Glen Ross . His plays include China Doll Race The Anarchist American Buffalo Speed-the-Plow November The Cryptogram Sexual Perversity in Chicago Lakeboat The Water Engine The Duck Variations Reunion The Blue Hour The Shawl Bobby gould in Hell Edmond Romance The Old Neighborhood and his adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance .
language: English
title: Race
publisher: Theatre Communications Group