Oleanna, a visionary play that is clearly still relevant today.
David Mamet’s exceptional talent as a playwright, as a creator of film scenarios and producer of films, is fueled by a deep-seated anger against corruption in the US, inspired and even fascinated by all manner of falsehood such as we saw in the Hollywood drama Speed the plow– at the Gladstone Theatre in 2011 starring John Muggleton, directed by Teri Loretto. http://capitalcriticscircle.com/?s=speed+the+plow+gladstone. First produced in 1988 with Madonna playing the single feminine role, that play lost none of its bite to put it mildly – its male capitalist energy, and the power of its dialogue that shot back and forth as though the actors were riddling each other with machine gun spray. …