By David Mamet
Publish yr note: First released in 1993
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In David Mamet's newest play, a male university teacher and his woman scholar take a seat to debate her grades and in a terrifyingly couple of minutes turn into the members in a latest reprise of the Inquisition. harmless feedback by surprise flip damning. Socratic discussion supplies approach to heated attack. And the connection among a a bit fatuous instructor and his likely hapless scholar becomes a fiendishly actual X ray of the mechanisms of strength, censorship, and abuse.
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I . . Before, I . . It used to be that when I woke up from a dream it was so easy. I was in one place and with a little movement, as small as lifting my eyelids, there I was in another place, completely different, serene, as if it weren’t . . strange . . Now I open my eyes and I can’t tell if I’m closing them. . I need help. HE: You need to rest. Come on, let’s go. SHE: Anything would be better than going crazy. I’d rather die. HE: I know. SHE: (Scared) You know? HE: What’s the matter? ) María, María, please.
BILL: Do you really believe that? I deserted, didn’t I? That proves I’m a traitor, right? ROSA: Yes, Bill. You’re a traitor. BILL: (Happy) I didn’t go to Vietnam, right? ROSA: You are a traitor. BILL: Say it again. I like hearing it from your lips. ROSA: You, Bill, are a traitor. BILL: But I still feel bad. Rosa, I want to make a confession, tell you how bad I am. ROSA: It’s not necessary, Bill. That’s all in the past. You couldn’t help what you did in Vietnam. You had to survive. BILL: (Defiant) I didn’t go to Vietnam.
Only to you. I can’t see myself. I can’t see myself through my eyes. I can see myself only through your eyes, and when you look at me like that, from head to toe . . ) HE: No. Look at me. Tell me what you see. SHE: You can’t make me . . ) HE: Tell me, what do you see? SHE: I see that you’re weak. Insecure. That you can’t behave like a person independent from me. And even so, I love you. HE: Because I’m a man. SHE: Because you can’t behave like an independent person. Because you’re weak. Insecure.