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Race

David Mamet

Paperback | Pages: 96 pages

Rating: 3.55 | 394 Users | 41 Reviews

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ISBN:	1559363827 (ISBN13: 9781559363822)
Edition Language:	English

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“Intellectually salacious…Deep in its gut, Mamet’s gripping play argues everything in America is still about race.” –Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

“Tasty dialogue, spiky confrontations and more than occasionally biting observations…RACE riffs artfully on the subtleties of discrimination and guilt, resentment and shame, and its ambiguities appear designed to stir audiences into testy debates.” –David Rooney, Variety

“Edgily compelling…Few writers can grip an audience like David Mamet. He tackles urgent themes head on, and often writes with the brutality of a sawn-off shotgun held at the spectator’s head.” –Telegraph (UK)

“Fascinating and dramatically charged, Mamet’s provocative, hot-topic play is anything but simple. The questions and answers posed add up to an intriguing study of perception.” –Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press

When a rich white man is accused of raping a younger African American woman, he looks to a multicultural law firm for his defense. But even as his lawyers—one of them white, another black— begin to strategize, they must confront their own biases and assumptions about race relations in America.


David Mamet is a playwright, essayist and screenwriter who directs for both the stage and film. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Glengarry Glen Ross. His plays include China Doll, Race, The Anarchist, American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, November, The Cryptogram, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Duck Variations, Reunion, The Blue Hour, The Shawl, Bobby gould in Hell, Edmond, Romance, The Old Neighborhood and his adaptation of The Voysey Inheritance.

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Title	:	Race
Author	:	David Mamet
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 96 pages
Published	:	January 11th 2011 by Theatre Communications Group (first published August 23rd 2010)
Categories	:	Plays. Drama. Theatre. Literature. American. Fiction. Race

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Ratings: 3.55 From 394 Users | 41 Reviews

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This is the first really great Mamet play in several years, perhaps since the mid 90s. It's the Mamet you've come to love, to ponder over, and to spontaneously quote to friends (sometimes forgetting to leave out the expletives). It's a short play, but lively--an energetic trip across the minefield of racial politics with a small herd of sacred cows.And Mamet dedicated the play to... Shelby Steele? How cool! I look forward to seeing it performed some day.

Really enjoyed reading this play. I went into it having heard it's not Mamet's best stuff, so I think the low expectation helped, but I found it very hard to put down. It's interesting how dialogue can feel 'fast-paced' even when it's not being spoken fast, you're just reading it at your normal reading pace. Not the most insightful on the topic of race, but I enjoyed just seeing Mamet being his usual frank self on a topic people are often not frank about.

A provocative look at race relations in contemporary American society. Playwright Mamet's uncensored and acerbic dialogue makes the reader question if there will ever be true equality between the races.

My favourite aspect of Mamet's writing has always been the tight dialogue: the quick back and forth between characters that builds tension so quickly; and the echoing of phrases that really adds to the confusion and frustration each of the characters feel in the scene. So, I enjoyed reading Race and could really get a sense of how this could be a dynamic staged performance. What Mamet is super good at is making you feel one way about a character when you first meet them and then having your

A lot to think about.

love it. dialogue, dialogue, dialogue.sometimes i wonder how intentional his topics are. pure drama based or politically motivated. i choose to continue to read them in terms of drama...

I guess I was just hoping for something more insightful, instead of the usual "White man trying to keep the Black man down"/ "Black people hate White people" and vice-versa. I just don't feel anything was accomplished or that anything new was revealed in this play. Meh.