Boston Marriage
From: Thursday, 6th May 2010
To: Wednesday, 30 June 2010
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Synopsis
The term 'Boston Marriage' is 19th century slang, for the implied relationship between women who lived together, independent of men. Mamet's play, which premiered in Boston in 1999, examines the shifting and ambiguous friendship between two such women, Claire and Anna.
Our Review:
11 May 2010
David Mamet is rightly famed for his heightened use of the demotic of the streets, bars and workplaces, totally convincing, if not strictly realistic, ferocious, frightening and very funny. In Boston Marriage he deliberately subverts all expectations by writing for an all-female cast in stylised formal dialogue, 19th century middle-class America filtered through the balanced periods of Oscar Wilde. He is even old-fashioned enough to construct the play in three short acts, though Acts 2 and 3 continue without an interval at Scarborough.
The ideas are undoubtedly clever. This form of playwriting is artificial, so why not underline the artifice by clanging descents into modern slang? In a world of boons begged, reticules and barouches, we suddenly find things going pear-shaped or modern obscenities soiling the genteel lips of the ladies. Witty phrases abound: reminding her friend that she is no longer young, a lady elegantly enquires whether she has decided to repeal the ca...
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David Mamet (Author)
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company (Company)
Chris Monks (Director)
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