Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Masterplots II: Drama, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Mamet
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Plot: Comedy
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: Chicago, Illinois
- Principal Characters: Dan Shapiro, Bernard Litko, Deborah, Joan
- Genres: Domestic realism, Drama, Women’s literature, Comedy
- Subjects: Values, 1970’s, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Communication, Friendship, Chicago, Women’s issues
- Locales: Chicago, IL
The Play
Sexual Perversity in Chicago opens as Bernard is telling his best friend Dan about a recent sexual adventure. Bernard’s story is unrelated to the play’s plot, but it does establish the play’s thematic motif: men, women, and sex. This first scene also presents Bernard and Dan’s relationship as that of experienced man-of-the-world to relative neophyte and establishes some of David Mamet’s stylistic trademarks—a discovery of the poetic rhythms of everyday speech, an abundance of obscenities, and a nonreflective, give-and-take dialogue. The next scene...
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