True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (12 page)

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THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD

In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old neighborhood in a series of encounters with his past that open windows on his present. Mamet proves himself a writer who can turn the most innocuous phrase into a lit fuse and a family reunion into a perfectly orchestrated firestorm of sympathy, yearning, and rage.

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OLEANNA

A male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss her grades and in a terrifyingly short time become participants in a modern reprise of the Inquisition. The relationship between the somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X-ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.

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