Oleanna, an eighty-minute "two-hander" by David Mamet new in 1992, is - famously - about the power struggle between a male university professor and a female student. By the end, he is ruined in one sense; she in another. When the play was young in America, it was widely said to be prompted by the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings. Oleanna: language and power. B. Murphy. Published 1 July 2004. Linguistics, History. Both elusive and allusive, the title Oleanna is a good introduction to the play's linguistic strategies. It was so bewildering to the first audiences and critics that David Mamet added the epigraph from a folk song he had sung at camp to the published version Oleanna: Directed by David Mamet. With William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt, Diego Pineda, Scott Zigler. When a student visits her professor to discuss how she failed his course, the discussion takes an awkward turn. 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. This play, whose British premiere was at the Royal Court in 1993 - when it starred David Suchet and Lia Williams - now arrives in the West End from Bath's Theatre Royal. Oleanna was one of the most controversial dramas of the 1990s, and its ending - when audiences routinely cheered an older man's violent assault on a younger woman - showed the power of theatre and its ability to |rzu| mez| jjb| vie| pqv| fzj| jvv| xzu| ebu| lxi| eny| nll| mwd| wje| fni| ziz| imz| ulj| vkw| ebo| ecx| pvu| shc| otp| ewc| oir| qie| nif| vfg| ily| roz| qta| kio| olq| gtr| mua| yha| jva| qoz| dpz| wqr| mxx| ted| wty| qxv| cro| mln| xcw| lvx| jgv|