Romance

Pulitzer Prize'winning playwright David Mamet's Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors.It's hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who's a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices, and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity.

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Title of ebook: Romance
ISBN: 9780307490278
parent-ISBN: 9780307275189
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 128
Published: 12-2008
Released online for download: 12-10-2008
Author of eBook: Mamet, David

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Romance

Chapter One

Scene One

A courtroom.

The judge is on the bench. The defendant is being interrogated by a prosecutor. The defense attorney sits at the defense bench. A bailiff stands at the side.

prosecutor: Who is this . . . ?

(All turn to sound of siren-as of motorcade passing in the streets.)

prosecutor: Who is the person in the hotel room?

defendant: I have no idea.

prosecutor: You were there. You were seen there.

defendant: By whom?

prosecutor: Just answer the question please.

defendant: Then, please may I be addressed with one? (Pause) Would you please address me with a question? (Pause) "You were seen there" is not a question.

prosecutor: Just answer the question as you've been directed.

defendant: Well, you ask the questions, and I will attempt to answer them.

defense attorney: Your Honor, my client is endeavoring . . .

prosecutor: Excuse me?

defense attorney: . . . to respond to the questions.

prosecutor: Oh, please . . .

defense attorney: "Oh, please?" Your Honor? I must object. This scurrilous, this sad . . ... read full excerpt from: Romance ebook

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