Oleanna London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (3)
See it if you like Mamet and are happy to suspend disbelief.
Don't see it if you like clearcut plays. Read more
See it if You are interested in a thoughtful play about sexual violence against women, it’s a very good play
Don't see it if You fee triggered my sexual violence, some of the scenes were a bit hard to watch
See it if You like plays with lots of dialogue focusing on important, thought-provoking issues
Don't see it if You're someone who notices plot holes very easily
Critic Reviews (5)
...David Mamet’s supremely discomfiting play about power politics and academe that has been freshly revived by the director Lucy Bailey.
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'Oleanna' is a fast-moving, exquisitely infuriating experience over 80 minutes. Bailey’s production makes the play feel both mythical and utterly of the moment.
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...through quietly convincing and unflashy performances [Rosie Sheehy and Jonathan Slinger] convey a sense that each of them is both perpetrator and victim. Both are equally emotionally grounded, and the final explosion of violence is deeply disturbing.
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Bailey’s crackling, intelligent production is full of fleeting moments that could inspire hours of discussions in themselves.
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In Bailey’s confident hands, 'Oleanna' is something of a Trojan horse. The billing might shout “sexual harassment”, but it’s the dismantling of the edifice of patriarchal intellectual assumptions that really packs its punch.
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