A must see! Total involvement with the characters intellectually and emotionally,even above the voices and Abba music from next door.

oleanna was crap

Are you kidding me? Not only was this dreadfully overacted but neither Guy nor Joanne seemed to connect with each other or the script. As a result Joanna resorted to yelling and foot stamping while Guy tried desperately to give a realistic performance. Absoloutely no variation in tone or delivery of lines added to the monotony of the piece with the audience despereately seeking distraction with set or costuming, and findind none. While a sparse set is often very effective, it simply made Oleanna less tolerable than it already was. I strongly suggest giving this a miss.

to be perfectly honest i preferred to look at the theatre than the dreadful acting... give it a miss unless u have a partner with you ;)

Some of the comments above reflect a lack of familiarity with Mamet and a failure to grasp the point of the play. The criticisms of the acting are shallow in the extreme. I saw Oleanna with a packed audience and afterwards I overheard a lot of discussion. People were fulsome in their praise of Guy and Joanne and moved by the issues in the play.'Powerful' 'Stunning' 'Riveting' were keywords, as well as admiration for the actors' skill and energy. It is a performance which will stay with me a long time. However I agree that the venue was poor!

Regardless of any familiarity the audience has with the work of Mamet, the above comments refer to the overall performance. I have no doubt the opinion of the Masterson/Hartstone combination would not be received differently if it had been any other play. Oleanna is a top rate piece, no arguments there, but the performance given by these particular actors was a feeble recital more than it was the clashing of personalities that it should be. I agree with Kendra, the childish and controlling performance by Joanna left Guy grasping to balance out the levels of power that should have been shifting between the actors, not hoarded by the one character. And she certainly had the 'energy', as shown clearly by her repeated use of the same phrase in the same tone and at the same shrieking volume. The audience couldn't have been so immersed in the play if they were too busy trying to determine the dialogue.

WORST. PLAY. EVER...