Sexual Perversity in Chicago
Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a play (drama, comedy) written by David Mamet (born 1947) [1]
Contents
The original text
A play that examines the sex lives of two men and two women in the 1970s.
Date premiered 1974; Place premiered Organic Theater Company.
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.
Playscript [Typescript (photocopy)] held by NELM: [Collection: SIMON, Barney]: 2003. 90. 596.
Copy of the text held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, Stellenbosch.
Review by Steyn du Toit, Cape Times, 26 September 2013.
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