Mamet Plays: 1

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474248098
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Duck Variations: "A brilliant little play...about two old men sitting on a park bench discussing ducks" (Guardian); Sexual Perversity in Chicago, bar-room banter and sexual exploits in Mamet's home town "sweet sad understanding and utterly believable" (Chicago Daily News); Squirrels is a sequence of philosophising between a younger writer, an older writer and a cleaning lady which "memorably captures the agony of the creative process" (Daily Telegraph); American Buffalo, one of Mamet's most famous plays, is set in a junk shop where Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection - in the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business. The Water Engine is "a propulsive, kaleidoscopic nightmare" and Mr Happiness is a short ironic monologue by a Radio DJ commenting on the letters from his listeners.

American Buffalo

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802191800
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 106

Book Description
American Buffalo, which won both the Drama Critics Circle Award for the best American play and the Obie Award, is considered a classic of the American theater. Newsweek acclaimed Mamet as the “hot young American playwright . . . someone to watch.” The New York Times exclaimed in admiration: “The man can write!” Other critics called the play “a sizzler,” “super,” and “dynamite.” Now from Gregory Mosher, the producer of the original stage production, comes a stunning screen adaptation, directed by Michael Corrente and starring Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, and Sean Nelson. A classic tragedy, American Buffalo is the story of three men struggling in the pursuit of their distorted vision of the American Dream. By turns touching and cynical, poignant and violent, American Buffalo is a piercing story of how people can be corrupted into betraying their ideals and those they love.

Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802191436
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
David Mamet is one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. The author of plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, and children’s books, he has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross. The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago is about two office workers, Danny and Bernie, on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970s. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are not only lovers but roommates, and their story quickly evolves into a modern romance in all its sticky details. 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.”

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

Goldberg Street

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802151049
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Brief plays and sketches deal with the relationship between men and women, the past, communication, country life, and mortality.

Speed-the-plow

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573690815
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a hot male movie star, and he has brought it to his friend Bobby Gould, head of production for a major film company. Both see the script as a ticket to the really big table where the power is. The star wants to do it; all they have to do is pitch it to their boss in the morning. Meanwhile, Bobby bets Charlie that he can seduce the secretary temp. As a ruse, he has given her a novel "by some Eastern sissy writer" that he is supposed to read before saying "thanks but no thanks." She is determined that the novel, not the trite vehicle, should be the company's next project. When she does sleep with Bobby, he finds the experience is so transmogrifying that Charlie must plead with Bobby not to pitch the sissy film. - Publisher's note.

A Life in the Theatre

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802150677
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
In a series of scenes we see two actors - a seasoned pofessional and a novice - backstage and onstage going through a cycle of roles and an entire wardrobe of costumes.

The Old Neighborhood

Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573626531
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
When Bobby returns to the old neighbourhood, the people and places of his past cast shadows over the present.

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

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.