Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Cross Examination

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and playwright David Mamet likes to push the envelope. An affinity for wordplay and razor-sharp dialogue drives his work, including the play Race, which explores manifestations of sex, guilt and cultural taboos behind the curtain of political correctness. Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill directs a Northern Stage and Capital Repertory Theatre coproduction of this provocative tale about a team of racially diverse attorneys, who, upon agreeing to defend a white man accused of a crime against an African American woman, must confront their emotionally charged reactions to the case — and each other. Production contains sexually explicit language and adult situations. (See review on page 40.)