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Article: A trial by fury: With Romance, Mamet has written a farce about hate. Funny, that.
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- South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
- Article date:
- January 3, 2007
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Byline: Bill Hirschman
Jan. 3--David Mamet's impishly misnamed Romance may be the first flat-out funny farce about virulent hate. Who else to mount such a show in South Florida but the joyously incendiary GableStage? Although there are plenty of Mametian obscenities interlaced in the dialogue, what is far more obscene -- and yet terribly funny -- is the vile river of bile spewed forth about Jews, Catholics, homosexuals, WASPs and blacks. It's an equal-opportunity offender. The pretext for the action is a criminal fraud trial being held in some American city, as Middle Eastern leaders arrive outside for peace talks. The first scene leans toward traditional ...
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Article: Mamet, David
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