Race
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Description
There is nothing. A white person. Can say to a black person. About Race . . . Race. Is the most incendiary topic in our history. And the moment it comes out, you cannot close the lid on that box.
Sparks fly when three lawyers and a defendant clash over the issue of race and the American judicial system. As they prepare for a court case, they must face the fundamental questions that everyone fears to ask. What is race? What is guilt? What happens when the crimes of the past collide with the transgressions of the present?
Drawing on one of the most highly-charged issues of American history, David Mamet forces us to confront deep-seated prejudices and barely-healed wounds in this unflinching examination of the lies we tell ourselves and the truths we unwillingly reveal to others.
Race was first seen in New York at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on December 6, 2009, directed by David Mamet. It receives its UK premiere at the Hampstead Theatre on 23 May 2013.
Product details

Published | 02 Dec 2013 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 80 |
ISBN | 9781472522863 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Series | Modern Plays |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Scalpel-edged intelligence
New York Times
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Intellectually salacious . . . Gripping . . . rapid-fire Mametian style . . . Deep in its gut, Mamet's new play argues, everything in America - and this play throws sex, rape, the law, employment and relationships into its 90 minutes of stage wrangling - is still about race.
Chicago Tribune
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[Mamet's] exhilarating epigrammatic style broadcasts the will to prevail.
New Yorker
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Mamet lets us see the way sensitivity to the most incendiary topic in our history, as Jack describes race, can breed better liars.
LA Times
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Race is wholly watchable. Gripping, actually. Don't believe anyone who argues otherwise.
Chicago Tribune
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It's black against white, man versus woman in a typically blunt David Mamet straight-talker about the law and discrimination ... David Mamet doesn't mince his words in Race ... an engaging brew of wit, rage, and shifting sympathies
Kate Bassett, Independent