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Original Title:	Oleanna
ISBN:	067974536X (ISBN13: 9780679745365)
Edition Language:	English

Oleanna

David Mamet

Paperback | Pages: 80 pages

Rating: 3.62 | 6785 Users | 302 Reviews

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In David Mamet’s latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become the participants in 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.

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Title	:	Oleanna
Author	:	David Mamet
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 80 pages
Published	:	May 4th 1993 by Vintage (first published 1993)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Theatre. Fiction

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I know that David Mamet is super renowned, and that's fine. But I hated reading this stupid play. I understand the main point of the play, but the dialogue was annoying. I felt ill trying to figure out what the hell the characters were trying to say. I have been told that Mamet always writes dialogue this way. Nope, I'm done. If that's the case, I will NEVER read another Mamet play. I read it for a class, and our discussion was eye-opening, so I'll give it that much. But never again.

This is one of the most thought provoking plays that I have read or seen. There are only two characters, a middle aged college professor and his female student. There are only three acts and they all take place in his office. This play is all dialogue between the two characters with the professor periodically interrupted by several phone calls. I find it brilliant how Mamet swaps the villain and victim, several times and how you see at different points that each character is being manipulated.

Just embarrassing. A descent into hysteria and the demonisation of feminism. I dont hate it, its just sad to read, and sad to think somebody has spent time writing it.

THIS PLAY MAKES ME SO ANGRY. Mamet takes a perceived notion of feminism and bastardizes it to a sickening extreme. However... there are certainly horrible people in the world who (under the guise of feminism) act this way. Its just really hard to read about it. Ive performed one of Carols monologues over the course of my theatre degree and I feel like I really got to know the character (as unpleasant as she is). I would genuinely like to see the show in its entirety performed live one day.

Reading this shortly after having read Speed-the-Plow was like finding some soup in the fridge that you remember was tasty, heating it up, and realizing too late that it's been in there way too long. Like that play just four years earlier, this pits a grandiose abrasive middle-aged man against a younger woman whose goals aren't immediately clear, with the power dynamic between them changing several times; also in both plays, the characters talk about a book containing rants about modern

I read this for school... it was hard to read and honestly I didn't even understand the moral or plot. It might be better as a play... but reading it was awful.