The Courtyard Playhouse presents:

Oleanna  
by David Mamet
Directed by Penny Mackenzie
Starring Ellie Pinkerton & Bryan Mackenzie

A captivating two-character drama about privilege, power and consent.

A female college student is concerned about failing class and is frustrated because she doesn’t understand the professor’s overly verbose lectures. He offers to help his student by bending the rules if she agrees to meet with him to discuss the material, one-on-one….

A power struggle ensues after the student accuses her professor of sexual harassment and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure.

“There can be no tougher or more unflinching play than Oleanna.’ – Harold Pinter

About the Playwright:

David Mamet was born in Chicago in 1947. He studied at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York. He has taught at Goddard College, the Yale Drama School and New York University and lectures at New York’s Atlantic Theater Company, of which he is a founding member. He is the author of the plays THE CRYPTOGRAM, OLEANNA, SPEED-THE-PLOW, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, AMERICAN BUFFALO, and SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO. He has also written screenplays for such films as “House of Games” and the Oscar-nominated “The Verdict,” as well as “The Spanish Prisoner,” “The Winslow Boy,” and “Wag the Dog.” His plays have won the Pulitzer Prize and the Obie Award.