Mamai' Theatre Company Presents "Boston Marriage" by David Mamet, Directed by Christine McBurney

Mamai' Theatre Company
Co-Founders Bernadette Clemens, Wendy Kriss, Christine McBurney, Derdriu Ring

Presents

BOSTON MARRIAGE
by David Mamet
Directed by Christine McBurney

July 18 - August 4, 2013

Scenic Design by Ron Newell
Costume Design by Inda Blatch Geib
Lighting Design by Trad Burns
Sound Design by Ross Newbauer

With Shanna Beth McGee*  as Anna, Cathleen O’Malley as Claire, and Khaki Hermann as Catherine, the Maid

*Actor appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association
Mamai' Theatre Company's second production of the inaugural season is the Cleveland professional premiere of David Mamet’s answer to his critics’ charge that he “can’t write women.” In this Wildean romp set in the late 19th-Century, Mamet dives beneath petticoats and protocols -- examining the personal and political, turning his gaze on female agency in the world and female sexuality at home.

One of America's most revered and provocative dramatists, David Mamet conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room. Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming ladies of fashion who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an income to match. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous Anna’s help for an assignation. As the two women exchange barbs and take turns taunting Anna’s hapless parlor maid, Claire’s young inamorata suddenly appears, setting off a crisis that puts the valuable emerald at risk and threatens the women’s future.

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