Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet’s ROMANCE is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors. It’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who’s a liar, according to his (anti-Semitic) attorney. The prosecutor, an homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover who shows up crying in court. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity.
Written by David Mamet
Directed by Nicole Garbellini
With:
Matthew Gillespie
Ben Margalith
Neil Runcieman
Tom McLean
Alexander Wilkins
Boaz Lo
David Tsim
Performance dates:
18th-22nd November at 7.30pm
Fringe Underground Theatre
Tickets available at www.hkticketing.com, as well as all Tom Lee outlets, Kitec and Bethanie Campus.
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Prices:
Standard: 250 HKD
Concession: 220 HKD
Fringe Members: 200 HKD
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THIS IS AN ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRODUCTION