Boston Marriage

Play

Writers: David Mamet

Overview

Show Information

Category
Play
Number of Acts
2
Genres
Comedy
Cast Size
small
Casting Notes
Mostly female cast
Includes adult, mature adult, young adult characters

Synopsis

Boston Marriage is set in a late Victorian Boston drawing room, the scene of much backbiting wit from Anna and Claire. Anna is being kept by a married man, but she prefers the company of women. Claire, Anna's lover, has become infatuated with a much younger woman whom she hopes Anna will help her seduce. Anna's lover has given her a fabulous emerald which actually belongs to the mother of Claire's inamorata. Financial and moral scandal ensues, through which Anna forces Claire's loyalty to her. Mamet's play gives us his trademark blunt language and scheming characters, set rather unusually among the Victorian female intellectual set.

Lead Characters

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