Sexual perversity in Chicago and The duck variations : two plays / by David Mamet.

Mamet is the first playwright to create a formal and moral shape out of the undeleted expletives of our foul-mouthed time." The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations "a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless."

Sexual Perversity in Chicago is about two young men, Bernie and Danny, and two young women, Deborah and Joan, trying to sort out their sex lives amid filing cabinets and the nervous regimentation of the singles bar scene. In a series of blackout scenes, we see them fallilng in and out of love in a comedy of failure to learn. Two of them have an affair which their two friends coach from the sidelines--cynical and destructive--helping to break up the relationship. "Seual Perversity in Chiocago is like a sleazy soata of seduction involving two couples