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Sexual Perversity in Chicago

  • David Mamet
  • Short Play, Comedy
  • 2M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573600418

Mamet has the most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger.

The Village Voice

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Comedy
  • 60 minutes

  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Intense Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Professional Theatre

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 1976 Obie for Best New American Play
The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago "takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game," according to The New York Times.

Two male office workers, Danny and Bernie, are on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970's. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are lovers as well as roommates. The other couple, Bernie and Joan, seem to have the politics of sex down pat but are as confused as their more naive counterparts. After much comic drama, the two men end as they started, talking a good game in the local bar.

Published with The Duck Variations.
REVIEWS:

Mamet has the most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger.

The Village Voice

Marvelously observant... A glittering mosaic of tiny, deadly muzzle flashes from the war between men and women among the filing cabinets and single bars.

The New York Times
Premiere Production: The plays were first performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre on June 16, 1976.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 2F
  • Casting Attributes: Ensemble cast

  • DANNY SHAPIRO - an urban male in his late twenties
    BERNARD LITKO - a friend and associate of Danny Shapiro
    DEBORAH SOLOMAN - a woman in her late twenties
    JOAN WEBBER - friend and roommate of Deborah Soloman.

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    The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago 'takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game,' according to The New York Times. Two male office workers, Danny and Bernie, are on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970's. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are lovers as well as roommates. The other couple, Bernie and Joan, seem to have the politics of sex down pat but are as confused as their more naive counterparts. After much comic drama, the two men end as they started, talking a good game in the local bar.

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