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Oleanna, Arts Theatre review - Mamet on power and tragedy
Oleanna, Arts Theatre review - Mamet on power and tragedy
David Mamet’s most controversial play retains its explosive charge
by Aleks SierzWednesday, 28 July 2021
Poverty of university life: Jonathan Slinger and Rosie Sheehy in ‘Oleanna’.Nobby Clark
Before seeing this play, I decided to eat a steak. It seemed the right culinary equivalent to David Mamet, one of America’s most provocative and, at times, especially past times, red-blooded writers. This play, whose British premiere was at the Royal Court in 1993 — when it starred David Suchet and Lia Williams — now arrives in the West End from Bath’s Theatre Royal.