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	Digital camera - Oleanna (DVD)
		Indicative of the fears of the decade that produced it but also dramatizing the eternal miscommunication between the sexes, OLEANNA is the first of his own plays to be directed for the screen by David Mamet.
		His rapid-fire, compact dialogue is a natural for a story in which language is so much at issue.
		Ultimately, OLEANNA never gives an easy answer--no wonder it had theatergoers and moviegoers arguing in the aisles.
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	Mamet takes anti-feminist stance too far in Oleanna
		Oleanna lacks power and self-esteem: First, because she cannot understand what the professor is talking about; and second, because she lacks a constructive outlet for her fear and anger.
		Oleanna and his reasoning for this move is truly zany: The group hopes to contracting a plea bargain with the professor in which in which he would agree to remove his own book from the required reading list.
		Oleanna is a vengeful, nasty character who clearly enjoys turning the tables on her tormentor, talking down to him and interrupting him the way he once interrupted her.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V114/N53/oleana.53a.html (738 words)

	Impact Theatre Company: Oleanna 6 FEB-10 FEB 8p.m.
		Oleanna is a play by David Mamet in the early nineties.
		John rejects any value in the learning system, (emphasising that the way students really learn is by direct battles with their teachers).
		Oleanna Illustrates how all 'radical' professors are hypocrites, and how a movement for liberation (feminism) can be used to oppress and bully in the same way as any absolute doctrine.
	www.impact-theatre.com /2007/02/oleanna-6-feb-10-feb-8pm.html (160 words)

	Oleanna (1994)
		People, you do not deserve a film like this.
		Discuss this title with other users on IMDb message board for Oleanna (1994)
		Whole point is to make people hate 'feminists'
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0110722 (427 words)

	Cate Blanchett - very Elven-like
		From there Blanchett moved to the role of Carol in David Mamet's searing polemic Oleanna, also for the Sydney Theatre Company, and won the Rosemont Best Actress Award, her second award that year.
		She was the first person to win the Critics Circle Theatre award for Best Newcomer and Lead Actress in the same year.
		One of the performances which won Cate this award was for her role in David Mamet's Oleanna opposite Shine star Geoffrey Rush.
	www.itsvery.net /CateBlanchett.html (579 words)

	DVD Confidential: DVD Review: Oleanna (C+)
		The story of Oleanna is simple: a student is failing a class.
		She is being used by a feminist group that is certainly taking advantage of the situation to push their agenda, but at the same time, her anger at the educational system for the unfairness it fosters is not altogether out of place.
		Oleanna has the signature Mamet style, but just not enough ingredients in the mix for a compelling film.
	www.dvdconfidential.com /2003/08/dvd-review-oleanna-c.html (203 words)

	Metroactive Stage \| 'Oleanna'
		NOT UNLIKE the communication problem it turns upon, there are probably as many interpretations of Oleanna as there are words in the dictionary.
		By the third act, so in command of the situation is Carol that Oleanna--or at least this interpretation of it--seems to suggest that ultimately revolution, on any scale, simply puts into power someone else's version of the establishment.
		Oleanna plays Thursday-Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm through Feb. 23 at City Lights Theater Company, 529 S. Second St., San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.31.02/oleanna-0205.html (540 words)

	Oleanna
		Oleanna is a play by David Mamet about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students who accuses him of sexual harassment and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure.
		The play has often been characterized as an attack on political correctness and affirmative action, yet it should also be viewed as a close scrutiny of power relations, especially in the elusive world of academia.
		Oleanna has also been turned into a movie by the author.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/o/ol/oleanna.html (107 words)

	AC Upstage Presents: Oleanna
		Hutchings is one of two cast members in Assumption’s upcoming production, Oleanna, a riveting, turbulent play about the dynamics between John, college professor accused of sexual harassment, and his accuser, a young female student.
		Oleanna first opened on stage in 1992, and since then, it has sparked numerous heated debates about gender issues, false truths, and a host of other college-centered arguments.
		Oleanna opens on November 18, 2004 at 7:00 p.m.
	www.assumption.edu /news/newshp/current_news/oleanna1.html (540 words)

	Oleanna Review \| TVGuide.com
		OLEANNA, David Mamet's treatise on sexual harassment and gender relations, is much more interesting to discuss than to sit through.
		The problem is exacerbated by Debra Eisenstadt's feeble performance: stymied by the sprung rhythms of Mamet's stylized dialogue, she's unable to elicit sympathy for her character, who remains a tongue-tied, inscrutable waif; meanwhile, her fumbling delivery seems to throw Macy (who handled the material with aplomb on stage) off his timing.
		As a piece of theater, OLEANNA's stylized dialogue and strict three-act schematic structure probably worked in the drama's favor; but on film, the techniques are jarring within the naturalistic settings.
	www.tvguide.com /detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=130243&more=ucmoviereview (766 words)

	Review of Oleanna (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This piece was commissioned by the University of Waterloo Gazette and appeared in their issue of 15 February 1995, under the title "Oleanna: reflections on the play, and on the audience".
		Oleanna with a female professor and a male student is just ludicrous.
		Oleanna performs a function similar to wartime propaganda: the intent is to demonize, to restrict thought rather than to free it.
	plg.uwaterloo.ca /~plragde/oleanna.html (3094 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Oleanna
		Whatever the reason, Oleanna the movie feels like it was made in a rush, on the cheap, and to fulfill a contractual obligation.
		When adapting Oleanna for film, Mamet had Pidgeon in mind to play Carol, but her pregnancy made a replacement necessary, so Eisenstadt took over the part.
		Whether or not Oleanna, on stage or screen, afforded a therapeutic catharsis for Mamet is unknown.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/o/oleanna.shtml (1305 words)

	Amazon.com: Oleanna: DVD: William H. Macy,Debra Eisenstadt,Diego Pineda,Scott Zigler,David Mamet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Oleanna is the story of a girl who goes to see her college professor for help in a class she is failing.
		Oleanna is about a twisted, vicious young woman's need to bring a man (and by extention, all men) down.
		Oleanna is a about mind games and I would feel confident that there is the possibility to see more than two versions of the whole, in the end.
	www.amazon.com /Oleanna-William-H-Macy/dp/B00009Y3N9 (3068 words)

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		Oleanna addresses the issues of miscommunication and abuse of power in an am biguous situation of alleged sexual harassment on a university campus.
		"Oleanna has the potential to do for the 1990s what Arthur Miller's attack on McCarthyism in The Crucible did for the 1950s," claimed Richard Stayton of the Boston Globe.
		Oleanna will run from Jan. 31 to Feb. 4 and Feb. 7 to 10 at 8 p.m.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/1.25.96/oleanna.html (478 words)

	Oleanna : filmcritic.com Movie Review
		This is not true, however, of David Mamet’s Oleanna, which fearlessly addressed the issues of sexual harassment with the subtlety of a slap in the face.
		Oleanna was first a play that made theater audiences upset and angry before it became a movie that died at the box office, probably killed by its political content.
		Oleanna seems to me to be basically one-sided -- Carol’s grievance is portrayed as manufactured, and her harassment charges are an opportunistic attempt to steal the academic success she cannot earn.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/be4e29a95def229e88256da40079c80e?OpenDocument (543 words)

	Oleanna News
		Oleanna News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Oleanna and Fabulation are two very different plays about power chicks.
		The play 'Oleanna,' penned by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet, was made into a 1994 movie starring William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt.
	www.topix.net /movies/oleanna (238 words)

	Amazon.com: Oleanna: A Play: Books: David Mamet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Oleanna" is an unforgettable play that will leave you unsure of who's side you're on until the last remaining moments that will stay with you for a long time.
		David Mamet's Oleanna was polarizing when it premiered on Broadway--audiences tended to sympathize with one character and hate the other.
		"Oleanna" was a very, very frustrating read for me. First of all, a lot of it probably has to do with the fact that it is meant to be seen and heard, not read.
	www.amazon.com /Oleanna-Play-David-Mamet/dp/067974536X (1761 words)

	AC Upstage Presents: Oleanna
		November, 2004—Assumption College's AC Upstage organization presents Oleanna, a stirring and controversial play, on the nights of November 18-22, 2004 at 7:00 p.m.
		Oleanna, written by famed playwright David Mamet, is a stage interpretation dealing with the controversial yet crucial topic of sexual harassment in the classroom.
		Carol, a college student, meets privately with her professor John, and later accuses him of sexual harassment despite his protests.
	www.assumption.edu /news/newshp/current_news/oleanna.html (121 words)

	SparkNotes: Oleanna: Act One, Part A
		Oleanna opens with John on the phone, and Carol is seated across the desk.
		He's discussing real estate matters with what we presume is his wife Grace (he ends the conversation with "I love you, too"), indignant because there seems to be some problem with a deal.
		She accuses him of thinking her stupid, citing a comment he made in reference to her paper: "What can that mean?" Carol becomes very frustrated, saying she doesn't understand anything anyone is talking about and is failing the class; she becomes self-hating, calling her work "garbage" and herself "pathetic."
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/oleanna/section1.html (821 words)

	Gulfshore Playhouse
		Oleanna runs October 16th and 17th at The Lab Theatre at FGCU.
		By the end of the piece, the audience is fully engaged in this riveting psychological “everyman” story, completely aware that life, and our good-standing in it, sits precariously on a fence and could, at any moment, be jostled from its perch.
		Oleanna is more than just an examination of political correctness; it guarantees to elicit emotional debate.
	www.gulfshoreplayhouse.org /upcomingOleanna.htm (860 words)

	The Failure of Theory; or, Oleanna on Stage and Screen
		The Failure of Theory; or, Oleanna on Stage and Screen
		Oleanna works on the stage because it concentrates conflict within a theatre to create a threatening space from which there is no escape.
		But on the screen, this dissipates as conflict becomes pathos at the same time it tempts viewers with visual escape, although there is no place to go (in his other work, escape and action seem to substitute for language: re Heist or Spartan).
	lectures.eserver.org /nadel (201 words)

	David Mamet Society: Oleanna
		In DMR 2 (Fall 1995), Joseph Csicsila described the effects of a three-song musical prologue and a post-performance panel discussion on sexual harassment when the play was performed in Las Vegas in September 1995.
		Theatr Clwyd's devices were less grotesque, but still in evidence in the programme, which negated Christopher Bigsby's wide-ranging discussion of Mamet and Oleanna by devoting six pages to the issue of sexual harassment in the university.
		The "talkback" was not focused on a specific issue, but had the effect of mirroring the frustrations of the play: predictably, there was no debate, merely a range of entrenched opinions and points which failed to interconnect.
	mamet.eserver.org /review/1996/Oleanna (480 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Oleanna
		In Oleanna, David Mamet's 1994 film adaptation of his own play, an awkward relationship between college professor and student reaches a blistering, unexpected climax.
		Oleanna works brilliantly on stage, but on film the story loses some of its immediacy.
		The film is shot like a staged play in many ways, especially the framing; Eisenstadt and Macy move in and out of frame often, with the camera rarely moving.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=8227 (748 words)

	Saturday, April 7, 2001 Brunet Symposium on Mamet's Oleanna
		Oleanna on stage and on film: witness and response
		Oleanna at one level explores the issue of sexual harassment at the university in Act ii.
		This document may be borrowed and copied if attribution to this institution and to authors is made.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/ashp/oleanna_symposium.html (366 words)

	Oleanna Movie, Review, Cast for Oleanna \| TVGuide.com
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	www.tvguide.com /movies/oleanna/130243 (111 words)

	OnCampus: Oleanna
		Ground Zero Theatre and the University of Calgary Department of Drama are presenting Oleanna by David Mamet for the 5th Annual Alumni show, August 30 – September 4, September 6 – 10, 2005 at the Reeve Theatre at the University of Calgary.
		A chilling and provocative drama, Oleanna dissects the controversial issue of sexual harassment from every emotionally charged side of the equation.
		According to Ryan Luhning, artistic director of Ground Zero Theatre, Oleanna was a perfect choice for this year's alumni show.
	www.ucalgary.ca /oncampus/weekly/august19-05/oleanna.html (291 words)

	Oleanna: Did you really see what you saw?
		Oleanna talked about the censorship of books and the ideas that can be presented by professors in books.
		Oleanna is a really good show, I definitely recommend you go see it.
		Laura: Oleanna is playing through next Friday and Saturday night at The Hard Bargain Ampitheater in Accokeek, Maryland.
	www.showbizradio.net /2006/05/17/review-oleanna (1283 words)

	Classical Voice of North Carolina
		Oleanna takes its title from the name of a failed utopia: a 19th-century Norwegian agricultural community founded by violinist Ole Bull and his wife, Anna (hence, “Oleanna”).
		Employing typically stilted Mametian syntax, this play about the decline of academic freedom chronicles the horrifying escalation that transforms a failing female student’s dubious accusation of sexual harassment into a career-killing complaint that costs the accused college professor his chance at tenure, and most likely his job as well.
		Although David Mamet uses a preposterous pretext to set this drama’s events in motion, he addresses a thorny subject that needs addressing, and this Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy presentation will surely be the subject of many heated “discussions” on the way home form the theater.
	www.cvnc.org /reviews/2006/082006/Oleanna.html (945 words)

	Oleanna on Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DAVID MAMET's latest play, Oleanna (the infelicitous title refers to a fool's paradise), now at the Orpheum Theater, has been touted in several quarters...
		In discussing the 1992 debut of David Mamet's Oleanna, audiences and critics tended to highlight two features of the play: its indictment of political...
		The characters in David Mamet's Oleanna have names--John and Carol--but they might as well have been called professor and student or man and woman or...
	www.findarticles.com /p/search?qt=Oleanna&qf=free (526 words)

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