DAVID MAMET'S OLEANNA

David Mamet's Oleanna

David Mamet's Oleanna

Oleanna is a short exchange between two people. The entire play spans only a couple of days; each transaction, each Act, takes about half an hour. Covering can occur between two evidently innocuous persons, in such a short time, that by the end of the play one individual has been assaulted, and the other individual's career and family is tattered apart? Who are these people? John is a forty-something university professor. On the exterior, he seems equitably innocuous, a usual professor. Certainly, he is conceited and controlling. Whether attentive of it or not, he feels ...