October 12, 2016 - Drawn from the real life controversy surrounding U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during his Senate Judiciary confirmation hearings, playwright David Mamet has created a play that sets up impassioned responses among men and women in the audience.   

Oleanna, directed by Theater professor Carin Heidelbach, will be performed in the Merced College Theater on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 2 p.m., Friday, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m., and on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 7:30 p.m.

According to film critic Roger Ebert, “Experiencing David Mamet's play Oleanna on the stage was one of the most stimulating experiences I've had in a theater. In two acts, he succeeded in enraging all of the audience - the women with the first act, the men with the second.”

New York Theater critic Frank Rich observed: “Oleanna . . .  is an impassioned response to the (Clarence) Thomas hearings. As if ripped right from the typewriter, it could not be more direct in its technique or more incendiary in its ambitions.”

General admission tickets are $5 and are available at Merced College’s Bookstore and Theater Box Office. Recommended for mature audiences, no one under the age of 16 will be admitted without an accompanying adult.

For more information, call 209.384.8624. 



Source: UC Merced