Romance - David Mamet

Category: Full Cast, Humor, Plays & Theater
Language: English
Keywords: L.A. Theatre Works

Written by David Mamet
Read by Fred Willard, Ed Begley Jr., Gordon Clapp, Noah Bean, Steven Goldstein, Rod McLachlan, Rob Nagle
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors.

It’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who’s a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices, and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity.

Directed by Neil Pepe

Fred Willard as The Judge
Ed Begley Jr. as The Defense Attorney
Gordon Clapp as The Prosecuter
Noah Bean as Bernard
Steven Goldstein as The Defendant
Rod McLachlan as The Bailiff
Rob Nagle as The Doctor

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in April of 2006.

Audio Release Date:
August 14 2007

1 hour and 8 minutes