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Oleanna - review by Alfred Hickling

Theatre Royal, YorkOne can only hope that higher education has moved on from the bearpit of academic arrogance and militant resistance that David Mamet's 1992 play describes. The story of a smug lecturer whose career is destroyed by semantics had an incendiary effect. Can a verbal assault be construed as rape? Or given Mamet's dazzling play on the ambiguity of language, does it constitute any situation where no is ta…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:31pm on November 19, 2010

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