Weiss: 'Space Pandas' a playfully subversive romp written for kids

28th Mar 2006, 04:05 GMT

David Mamet clearly understood the first commandment of children's theater from the start. He knew the guiding words had to be: Never talk down to the audience. And as it happens, the Goodman Theatre's revival of his early play for kids, "The Revenge of the Space Pandas or Binky Rudich and the Two-Speed Clock," turns out to be far funnier and more engaging than his recent adult work, "Romance."