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© Nobby Clark Oblique wordplay, broken sentences, meanings just out of reach. The first act of David Mamet s 1992 two-hander about education and power lulls the watcher into a false sense of security. There s something difficult to grasp about the interrupted, back-and-forth dialogue between John, a professor at a university and his student Carol, but what exactly? It seems to be a case of a benevolent teacher helping to support a struggling student; an awkward, angry and confused young woman being transformed into a budding, confident intellectual. Surprise is a form of aggression , says John at one point, and both surprise and aggression burst at the seams of this play. Each of Oleanna s three acts bring a new perspective on the previous; a new interpretation that s both entirely true and entirely false. Everything is played out in John s university office, on Alex Eale s beautifully 90s book shelf-covered set featuring classic clunky phone and computer monitor. The audience is

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