Why would a succesful american playwrite choose to write such a work as Oleanna

Why would a successful American male playwright decide to write such a work as Oleanna?

“In every scene some moral let it teach, and if it can at once both please and preach” (Pope)

Oleanna, by leading American playwright ‘David Mamet’, is predominantly a satirical work that focuses largely on satirising principal issues of the time; political correctness and sexual harassment.

Oleanna was written at a time when sexual harassment was probably the most incendiary issue around along with ever present political correctness. Mamet’s aim would seem to be to produce a satirical work of two issues, then, currently under great discussion and debate. The majority of Mamet’s plays concentrate greatly on stressing controversial topics of the time through a masculine world of petty crooks, con men, seedy salesmen and the like. For example American Buffalo, set in a Chicago junk shop, the characters in this play are small time crooks who are planning to steal a collection ...