Boston Marriage
by David Mamet

State Theatre Company of South Australia
The Space

Murray Bramwell

David Mamet is well-known for the testosterone dialogue of plays like American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross and the intriguingly minimalist expression of his film scripts, so it is interesting to see him venture into the very different world of Boston Marriage, a play he wrote for his wife the actor Rebecca Pidgeon.

A Boston marriage is a late nineteenth term for a partnership of …

20 October, 2004
Murray Bramwell

Boston Marriage
by David Mamet

State Theatre Company of South Australia.
The Space, Adelaide Festival Centre.
19 October.
Tickets $ 17 – $ 45.
Bookings BASS 131 246.
Until 6 November, 2004

In the late nineteenth century when two women lived together, whether for companionship, or somewhat more than that, it was known as a Boston marriage – reflecting both the feminist sophistication of the arrangement and its prevalence in that American city. It is …

2004

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
by Ann-Marie MacDonald

State Theatre Company
The Space, October, 2004.

Murray Bramwell

Many have noted how often the tragedy in Shakespeare is triggered by the merest foolish thing. If only Desdemona had not dropped that handkerchief, or the Friar’s letter had got safely to Romeo then disaster would have been averted and all would have ended happily. That is the theory that preoccupies Constance Ledbelly, the central character in Canadian writer, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s comedy. …