Oleanna

The title Oleanna, taken from a folk song, refers to a 19th-century escapist vision of utopia. In Act I, playwright David Mamet locks one man and one woman in an office where, depending on one’s point of view, an act of sexual harassment does or does not occur. In Act II, the antagonists, a middle-aged university professor and an undergraduate student, return to the scene of the alleged crime to try to settle their case without benefit of counsel, surrogates or, at times, common sense.