Oleanna
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Oleanna is:
- Oleanna, a community in Ole BullOle BullOle Bornemann Bull was a Norwegian violinist and composer.-Background:Bull was born in Bergen. He was the eldest of ten children of Johan Storm Bull and Anna Dorothea Borse Geelmuyden . His brother, Georg Andreas Bull became a noted Norwegian architect...
's colony New Norway, Pennsylvania - "Oleanna" (song)Oleanna (song)Oleanna is a Norwegian folk song that was translated into English and popularized by former Weavers member Pete Seeger. The song is a critique of Ole Bull's vision of a perfect society in America. Oleanna was actually the name of one of Ole Bull's settlements in the New Norway colony of Pennsylvania...
, a folk song mocking Ole Bull's ambitions of a perfect community - Oleanna (play)Oleanna (play)Oleanna is a 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 exploitation and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure...
, a play named after the folk song, written by David Mamet - Oleanna (film)Oleanna (film)Oleanna is a 1994 drama film written and directed by David Mamet based on his play Oleanna and starring William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt...
, a film based on Mamet's play, directed by the author and starring William H. Macy