Sexual perversity in Chicago

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Title: Sexual perversity in Chicago
Original language: English
Author: David Mamet
Publishing year: 1974
people
  • Dan Shapiro - A city dweller in his late twenties
  • Bernard Litko - Dan's friend and business partner
  • Deborah Soloman - A woman in her late twenties
  • Joan Webber - Deborah's friend and roommate

Sexual Perversity in Chicago is a David Mamet play that centers on the lives of two men and women in the 1970s. The language of the piece is shaped by regional jargon and vulgar expressions.

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It's about the ups and downs in the relationship between Danny and Deborah, who meet, fall in love, pull together, and separate as quickly as they found each other.

Danny is a naive and weak person, Deborah, on the other hand, is extroverted, she is bursting with energy. Bernie and Joan, the second and very contrasting couple, embodies the complete inability between men and women to come to an understanding.

Bernie is also an insecure and anxious man who hides behind a mask of vulgarity and aggressive sexism, while Joan is absolutely negative, suspicious and addicted to criticism. The piece depicts intimate interpersonal relationships as minefields of buried fears and misunderstandings.

Danny and Bernie enrich their mundane office jobs with banter about their sexual experiences and preferences. The women, on the other hand, discuss the shortcomings of the men with whom they pass the time. The main plot is mainly determined by the constant dialogues between the two protagonists Danny and Deborah about men and women.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sexual Perversity in Chicago. (PDF; 618 kB) In: www.act-sf.org. Archived from the original on December 4, 2010 ; accessed on May 29, 2020 (English, introduction to the piece).