Romance

It's hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines while he listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who's a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney

The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong

And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place

Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity

"It made me weep with delight ... Romance is funny. Extremely funny" ~ Wall Street Journal

"A wild ride ... An outrageous, hectic comedy composed in the hyperliterate profanity that made him a legend ... For fans of Mamet at his most joyfully vicious, it's everything you ever wanted" ~ NY Magazine

""A fiesta of forbidden laughter ... A giddy, glorious, bad-taste valentine" ~ NY Newsday