Premiering on Broadway in late 2009, David Mamet's powerful and incisive contemporary voice is applied to the subject of race, and all of the myths, lies and fears that surround it. This tightly constructed four-character play centers around two lawyers circling around the evidence surrounding a criminal rape case of a white male defendant and black female plaintiff. The evocative play is a stirring examination of race relations in current America, heightened by the evermore-complicating issues of gender. Mamet's razor sharp dramatic voice deftly lays the issues upon the buttressing plot, leaving its audiences to question the current temperature of our ideas about sameness, difference and hatred.
