Romance

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Even when the plot is difficult to follow, as is often the case in David Mamet's ironically titled
Romance, now being presented by the Bay Street Theatre, this courtroom farce is throw-back-your head funny in Lisa Peterson's polished production.

Mamet gives a satiric twist on everything from our justice system to politics, homosexuality, pedophile priests and religious prejudice. Even Shakespeare isn't safe from the disillusioned mouths of the wacky characters gracing the stage. And as in much of Mamet's work, Romance has most of its characters spouting horribly offensive lines that average people often think -- but that few of them actually say.

As the insane Judge at the center of the a[...]