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The Prince and Me (Widescreen Edition)

WHEN A PRE-MED STUDENT MEETS A HANDSOME PRINCE, SHE Should Choose Between FOLLOWING HER HEART AND FOLLOWING HER DREAM.The classic girlhood fantasy of marrying a handsome prince is provided a surprisingly realistic and subtle remedy in The Prince and Me. A pre-med student at the University of Wisconsin named Paige (Julia Stiles, 10 Items I Hate About You, Mona Lisa Smile) collides with a lazy, presumptuous exchange student named Eddie (Luke Mably, 28 Days Later) and, following a prickly starting, fal…complete description>>

Report by Al Terry

Oleanna is a literary and theatrical production of its own sort, showcasing a rather unusual battle of the sexes against the background of academic absolutism. The show is primarily based on David Mamet’s play by the identical name which attempts to narrate the story of a troubled female student taking up her stand against a professor she has accused of sexual harassment. The two-character drama redefines Broadway in a number of techniques and introduces a novel element of excessive political correctness and its manifestations in the postmodern academic world.

Oleanna Comes To Broadway

Soon after becoming previewed at Broadway’s John Golden Theater on September 29, Oleanna had its official Broadway opening on October 11, 2009. Starring Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles in the roles of an overly verbose professor and the timid female student respectively, this critically acclaimed production leaves the audience questioning about the multilayered character portrayals and the complexity of purely ethical, personal and political themes creating in the background. Some propose it could be the very best play as but written by David Mamet which brings together some of the most sensitive academic-cultural and feminist issues with some deeply ingrained elements of teacher-student relationship in a postmodern planet.

The Storyline Of Oleanna

Oleanna opens with Pullman and Stiles playing understandably complex yet standard roles of a subtly self-eloquent teacher and a seemingly oppressed female student respectively. In the initial act, the female student is unable to keep up with the professor’s lectures due to the verbosity which makes her feel incompetent and she performs poorly. She approaches the professor to address the issues which give rise to new ones, as the professor communicates and acts in a way which puts a question mark on his motives. Nevertheless, any aggression or attempts at intellectual or sexual exploitation do not manifest in a direct manner.

In the second and third acts of Oleanna, there is a total reversal of roles. The student dons an exploitative persona and the professor comes across as the oppressed to an extent. Even so, it is that really controversial aspect of its idea, peculiar setting and efficiency which characterizes the play as an exposition of complex ideological questions. They manifest via a net of deep private and political implications via some subtle and not so subtle circumstances which provide sufficient food for thought. The show aims to expose the hollowness of modern ideological assertions, beliefs and practices which includes the liberating concepts of feminism and postmodernism amongst others.

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