Boston Marriage

Director David McClendon refers to Boston Marriage as “David Mamet visits Oscar Wilde.” The play was a huge departure from the stronger more masculine themes of previous Mamet works to a feminine drawing room comedy about a “Boston marriage” — coined by Henry James in his book The Bostonians, referring to lesbian relationships. Combine two Victorian ladies of fashion, a young paramour and an emerald necklace and you have one of the funniest American comedies in years.