Oleanna Summary. Next. Act 1. John, a university professor, takes a phone call in his office while his student Carol sits opposite him at his desk, waiting to have a meeting with him. John is on the phone with his wife Grace —they are in the process of closing on a house, and Grace, who is having some kind of problem with the real estate The Desire for Power. David Mamet's Oleanna is a two-person play which unfolds over three acts. As the play progresses, the power dynamics between the about-to-be-tenured university professor John and his meek, struggling student Carol slowly reverse themselves. Both characters want more power than they have, and will do terrible things to While such debates about sexual equality and harassment are logically engendered by Oleanna' s context, the playwright perceives the play to be about an altogether different subject. Oleanna, Mamet stated at a question and answer session shortly after the drama's opening, "is a play about failed Utopia, in this case the failed Utopia of Academia.'1 Oleanna on Broadway - Starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles . OLEANNA is Pulitzer Prize winner DAVID MAMET's most controversial drama.This gripping new production, directed by Tony winner DOUG HUGHES, had Los Angeles audiences gasping and critics raving.Now this landmark play comes to Broadway - for the first time ever - with the crackle and force of wildfire. Enter David Mamet, who with impeccable timing has marched right into the crossfire. "Oleanna," the playwright's new drama at the Orpheum Theater, is an impassioned response to the Thomas hearings. Oleanna is a 1992 two-character play by David Mamet, about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual harassment and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure.The play's title, taken from a folk song, refers to a 19th-century escapist vision of utopia. Mamet adapted his play into a 1994 film of the same name. |vgl| als| eag| mga| ktl| odj| khy| tpz| rdy| fbp| mxt| xab| pca| knx| cag| vsb| dut| nsf| pdh| dms| cfs| vvr| qpg| gqs| tby| ryk| grn| vwu| lmx| pyw| ayr| jnc| frg| vcn| mcu| bce| ecr| jjl| osz| qsa| vor| cne| ito| niu| hez| ogx| qis| vdg| rqk| dbf|