ROMANCE

by David Mamet – directed by Scott Zigler

"An account of a pointless trial-from-hell presided over by a pill-popping, allergy-addled Judge, Romance mixes elements of W.S. Gilbert-style satire, Marx Brothersesque anarchy and, above all, Lenny Bruce-like shock tactics." — Ben Brantley, New York Times

“A joy…a fiesta of forbidden laughter…a giddy, glorious, bad-taste valentine…. The most skillfully constructed farce since Michael Frayn’s Noises Off.”
— Newsday

It’s hay fever season, and in the courthouse a judge is popping antihistamines like candy. The case unfolding before him involves a motley bunch of chauvinists and eccentrics, attorneys and clients alike, whose petty prejudices threaten to unravel the legal process. And then the defendant, who is either a chiropodist or a chiropractor, lands on an ingenious way to bring peace to the Middle East…

If you think you know David Mamet, think again. This famously terse playwright has reinvented himself as a master of farce. Romance is a courtroom comedy that takes no prisoners in its quest for total political incorrectness.

Masterfully wielding the language of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in a microcosm in which shameless fawning and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous mayhem. Mamet-veteran Scott Zigler (Copenhagen, The Old Neighborhood, The Cripple of Inishmaan) directs this sublimely vicious comedy.

Part of the festival: Sex, Satire, Romance, and Ducks: A David Mamet Celebration. Get ticket discounts when you attend multiple festival events — learn more.

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