{"product_id":"race-9781559363822","title":"Race","description":"\"Intellectually salacious...Deep in its gut, Mamet's gripping play argues everything in America is still about race.\" -Chris Jones, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tasty dialogue, spiky confrontations and more than occasionally biting observations...\u003ci\u003eRACE \u003c\/i\u003eriffs artfully on the subtleties of discrimination and guilt, resentment and shame, and its ambiguities appear designed to stir audiences into testy debates.\" -David Rooney, \u003ci\u003eVariety\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Edgily compelling...Few writers can grip an audience like David Mamet. He tackles urgent themes head on, and often writes with the brutality of a sawn-off shotgun held at the spectator's head.\" -\u003ci\u003eTelegraph (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fascinating and dramatically charged, Mamet's provocative, hot-topic play is anything but simple. The questions and answers posed add up to an intriguing study of perception.\" -Michael Kuchwara, \u003ci\u003eAssociated Press\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a rich white man is accused of raping a younger African American woman, he looks to a multicultural law firm for his defense. But even as his lawyers--one of them white, another black-- begin to strategize, they must confront their own biases and assumptions about race relations in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Mamet\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright, essayist and screenwriter who directs for both the stage and film. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eGlengarry Glen Ross\u003c\/i\u003e. His plays include \u003ci\u003eChina Doll, Race, The Anarchist, American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, November, The Cryptogram, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Lakeboat, The Water Engine, The Duck Variations, Reunion, The Blue Hour, The Shawl, Bobby gould in Hell, Edmond, Romance, The Old Neighborhood\u003c\/i\u003e and his adaptation of \u003ci\u003eThe Voysey Inheritance\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Theatre Communications Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/11\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781559363822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.20d","brand":"David Mamet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39893312176309,"sku":"9781559363822","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6853253c-dffb-4c6f-a252-97ffb8aa7dfd.jpg?v=1619538580","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/race-9781559363822","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}