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Article: `Oleanna' deals a one-two punch right to PC's glass jaw.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Theater)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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David Mamet's 1992 two-character drama, "Oleanna," punches political correctness square in its glass jaw, and clearly has a good time doing it.
An ordinary student-teacher conference at a university escalates into a "he said-she said" battle that includes charges of sexual harassment. Coming, as the play did, on the heels of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill slugfest, the sexual politics of "Oleanna" became its lightning rod; people took sides on the issue of what constitutes harassment, and at the Kennedy Center (which presented the Mamet-directed version of the play a few seasons back), exiting audience members were invited to chalk up a vote siding with ...
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Article: Mamet's `Oleanna' Both Infuriating, Provocative
Chicago Sun-Times;
September 14, 1993 ;
700+ words
..."Oleanna" 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday (except ... university professor in David Mamet's "Oleanna," which received its Chicago premiere ... this is what Mamet has accomplished in "Oleanna," a work that never fails to both irritate ...
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