Not exactly housewives: Mamet’s “Boston Marriage” features a pair of comic lesbians.
So, what does the old misogynist have to say about lesbians? Surprisingly little. 1812 Productions gives us David Mamet’s Boston Marriage, a mildly amusing comedy about two women whose relationship is discreetly termed a “Boston marriage,” a 19th-century nicety of phrase. Anna (Suzanne O’Donnell) and Claire (Grace Gonglewski) are two wildly overdressed women who, as middle age creeps up on the…