Synopsis

Boston Marriage

Boston Marriage $13

David Mamet

Published by Dramatists Play Service

0 Male 3 Female

Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women 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 Scottish parlor maid, Claire's young inamorata suddenly appears, setting off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women's futures at risk

To this wickedly funny comedy, Mamet brings his trademark tart dialogue and impeccable plotting, spiced with Wildean wit

REVIEWS

"Brilliant ... One of Mamet's most satisfying and accomplished plays and one of the funniest American comedies in years" ~ NY Post

"Devastatingly funny ... exceptionally clever" ~ NY Times

"Wickedly, wittily entertaining ... What makes the play such brilliant fun is its marriage of glinting period artifice and contemporary frankness" ~ Boston Phoenix

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