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Oleanna is a 1992 two-character 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's title, taken from a folk song, refers to a 19th-century escapist vision of utopia. [1]
Oleanna is a 1994 drama film written and directed by David Mamet based on his 1992 play and starring William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt. The plot concerns a contentious meeting between a student and a college professor. Macy reprised his role from the original stage production. The film was nominated for a Independent Spirit Award for Best ...
Oleanna (anglicized from Oleana) is: Oleona, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community "Oleanna" (song), a folk song mocking Ole Bull's ambitions of a perfect community; Oleanna, a play named after the folk song, written by David Mamet Oleanna, a film based on Mamet's play, directed by the author and starring William H. Macy
Its productions have included This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan starring amongst four casts Matt Damon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Anna Paquin, A Life In The Theatre starring Patrick Stewart and Oleanna by David Mamet with Aaron Eckhart, and Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute with David Schwimmer. Lawrence has also produced Fool for Love with Juliette ...
Blanchett at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con. Cate Blanchett is an Australian actress who has worked extensively on screen and on stage. She made her stage debut in 1992 as Electra in the National Institute of Dramatic Art production of the play of the same name, [1] [2] and followed in 1993 with performances in Timothy Daly's Kafka Dances, for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critics Award for ...
He recorded his version of the song in 1959 and published it in a songbook in 1960. Mudcat Cafe has Seeger's translation and the one by Bikel in their Oleanna thread. The Digital Tradition link is a mixture of the two. Pfa. Here are four translations of the same verse. Martin B. Ruud wrote a literal translation of Oleanna for Blegen's book.
William H. Macy is an American actor, director and screenwriter who has received various awards and nominations, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, an Academy Award nomination, and five nominations at the Golden Globe Awards.
A-Haunting We Will Go (1981), by Tim Kelly; The Accomplices (2007), by Bernard Weinraub; A Counterfeit Presentment (1877), by William Dean Howells; A Delicate Balance (1966), by Edward Albee