Oleanna

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030781761X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
In a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.

The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet

Author: C. W. E. Bigsby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894685
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
This collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working today. Readers will find the general and accessible descriptions and analyses provide the perfect introduction to Mamet's work. The volume covers the full range of Mamet's writing, including now classic plays such as American Buffalo and Glengarry Glen Ross, and his more recent work, Boston Marriage, among others, as well as his films, such as The Verdict and Wag the Dog. Additional chapters also explore Mamet and acting, Mamet as director, his fiction, and a survey of Mamet criticism. The Companion to David Mamet is an introduction which will prepare the reader for future work by this important and influential writer.

New York Magazine

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Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The Cryptogram

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 9780822214953
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
THE STORY: A young boy, John, comes downstairs to tell about his upcoming trip with his dad to the family friend, Dell. Mother, Donnie, is in the kitchen making tea. Soon the three are discussing the excitement of the trip, why John can't sleep, an

New York Magazine

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Languages : en
Pages : 194

Birth & Rebirth on an Alaskan Island

Author: Joanne B. Mulcahy
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820322537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
"Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island offers the fascinating story of Mary's life, from her experience growing up within the traditional society of Akhiok to her work as a teacher, a community health aide, a mother, a grandmother, and an Alutiiq midwife and healer. Through her story we discover a society that blended native Alutiiq culture with the Russian Orthodox teachings handed down from late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonists; the mixed modern education and employment with a subsistence lifestyle; that sanctioned arranged marriages but upheld civil divorce laws; and, above all, that recovered its confidence in traditional healing - both of the body and of the community.".

American Buffalo

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573640230
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
In a Chicago junk shop three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable "Buffalo nickel". These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitmate free enterprise. But the reality of the three--Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing; and "Teach"; a violently paranoid braggart--is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.

Short Plays and Monologues

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN: 9780822207207
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
These seven imaginative short theatre pieces by one of America's most inventive and highly regarded playwrights range widely in content, mood and style. The plays offer a stimulating challenge in terms of selecting, arranging, and mounting the diverse com

The Frog Prince

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573652202
Category : One-act plays
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description

The Theatre Arts Audition Book for Women

Author: Annika Bluhm
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135871299
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
First published in 2003. The Theatre Arts Audition Books offer one hundred speeches from plays of the past twenty-five years, fifty in a volume for men, fifty in a volume for women. Each excerpt is preceded by a note situating the play and the selection. Speeches come from a wide range of plays, including David Mamet's Oleanna, Caryl Churchill's Serious Money, Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Jim Cartwright's Road, and Timberlake Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good, as well as plays by Anthony Minghella, Mark Ravenhill, Sue Townsend, Alan Ayckbourn, and others. Annika Bluhm has assembled two sparkling collections of monologues that will challenge and inspire the actor