Sexual Perversity in Chicago

Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play (drama, comedy) written by David Mamet (born 1947) [1] that examines the sex lives of two men and two women in the 1970s.

Date premiered 1974; Place premiered Organic Theater Company.

The original text

Playscript [Typescript (photocopy)] held by NELM: [Collection: SIMON, Barney]: 2003. 90. 596.

Transations and adaptations

The play has been adapted for film twice: as the 1986 film About Last Night and the 2014 film About Last Night.

Performance history in South Africa

1992: Rhodes University Drama Department production during the Grahamstown Festival performed by Rikki Proost, Ronae Jolliffe, Justin Cohen and Carmen Curtayne.

2013: Directed by Chris Weare with Alistair Moulton Black, Melissa Haiden, Pierre Malherbe, and Marlisa Doubell at the Intimate Theatre, UCT Hiddingh Campus.

Sources

Wikipedia [2].

Press clippings (Rhodes production) held by NELM: Poster collection [Collection: Rhodes University. Drama Department]: 2008. 51. 4. 14. 1.

Review by Steyn du Toit, Cape Times, 26 September 2013.

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