Exhilarating courtroom farce from America’s finest playwright

Romance is an uproarious courtroom farce which lampoons the American judicial system and exposes the hypocrisy surrounding personal prejudices and political correctness.

Wildly humorous and often gob-smackingly outrageous, the play is set in a modern-day courtroom in New York during a week when there are Middle East peace talks being brokered in town. The court case at hand is unrelated, but the defendant and counsel come up with a plan to solve the conflict in the region.

A pill-popping judge, a defendant and lawyer (on the same side) who hate each other, and a prosecutor with a troubled personal life are part of the picture.

A new comedy from ‘the finest American playwright of his generation’ Sunday Times

‘A deliriously funny David Mamet farce’ Associated Press

‘An exhilarating spectacle. Mamet is a connoisseur of fiasco, knows all about legal punctilio, and he has great fun bringing mayhem to the ritual’ New Yorker

Published to tie-in with the play’s European premiere at the Almeida Theatre, opening 6th September 2005