It’s hay fever season, and in the courthouse a judge is popping antihistamines like candy. The case unfolding before him involves a motley bunch of chauvinists and eccentrics, attorneys and clients alike, whose petty prejudices threaten to unravel the legal process. And then the defendant, who is either a chiropodist or a chiropractor, lands on an ingenious way to bring peace to the Middle East.
If you think you know David Mamet, think again. This famously terse playwright has reinvented himself as a master of farce. Romance is a courtroom comedy that takes no prisoners in its quest for total political incorrectness.
Masterfully wielding the language of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in a microcosm in which shameless fawning and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous mayhem. Mamet-veteran Scott Zigler (Copenhagen, The Old Neighborhood, The Cripple of Inishmaan) directs this sublimely vicious comedy.
Part of the festival: Sex, Satire, Romance, and Ducks: A David Mamet Celebration.
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| The Prosecutor | Thomas Derrah |
| The Defendant | Remo Airaldi |
| The Defense Attorney | Jim True Frost |
| The Judge | Will LeBow |
| The Bailiff | James Senti |
| Bernard | Carl Foreman |
| The Doctor | Doug Chapman |
| set design | Michael Griggs |
| costume design | Miranda Hoffman |
| lighting design | DM Wood |
| sound design | David Remedios |
| stage manager | Katherine Shea |
| dramaturg | Sean Bartley |