Boston Marriage

The masterpiece by David Mamet, 1984 Pulitzer Prize winner and multi-Oscar nominee for his cinema screenplays, comes to the Solomeo stage.

Late nineteenth century United States, two ladies and a maid. All the ingredients for a conventional plot, yet substance does not correspond to form: the polished vocabulary of conversation is peppered with vulgarity and we come to see how both once formed a tightly-knit couple. Indeed the term “Boston Marriage” was used in New England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to allude to the cohabitation of women economically independent from men. Mamet takes a break from seriousness and in his work he plays for the sake of playing, giving the nod to the brilliant experiments of Williams, and above all, to Wilde’s The Importance of being Earnest. Alongside the performers, language is the absolute protagonist, or rather the unsaid, allusion, extravagance and paradox.