Plays:2 "Reunion"/ "Dark Pony"/ "A Life in the Theatre"/ the "Woods"/ "Lakeboat"/ "Edmond"

by David Mamet (Author), David Mamet (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $4.26

  The finest American playwright of his generation (Sunday Times) Reunion shows the meeting between a father and daughter after nearly twenty years of separation: It would be hard to over-praise the way Mr Mamet suggests behind the probing, joshing family chat, an extraordinary sense of pain and loss...although the play has a strong social comment about the destructively cyclical effect of divorce, it is neither sour nor defeatist (Guardian); In Dark Play, a father tells his five-year-old daughter a story about an Indian boy and his pony a subtle, lyrical, dreamlike vignette (Star Tribune); in The Woods, a young man and woman spend the night in a cabin together a beautifully conceived love story (Chicago Daily News); Lakeboat portrays eight crew members of a merchant ship exchanging wild fantasies about sex, gambling and violence Richly overheard talk...loopy, funny construction. (Village Voice); Edmond is an odyssey through the disturbing, suspended dark void of a contemporary New York it is also a technically adventurous piece pared brilliantly to the bone, highly theatrical in its scenic elisions. (Financial Times)

• New

  Paperback
  1996

  $24.65

  The finest American playwright of his generation (Sunday Times) Reunion shows the meeting between a father and daughter after nearly twenty years of separation: It would be hard to over-praise the way Mr Mamet suggests behind the probing, joshing family chat, an extraordinary sense of pain and loss...although the play has a strong social comment about the destructively cyclical effect of divorce, it is neither sour nor defeatist (Guardian); In Dark Play, a father tells his five-year-old daughter a story about an Indian boy and his pony a subtle, lyrical, dreamlike vignette (Star Tribune); in The Woods, a young man and woman spend the night in a cabin together a beautifully conceived love story (Chicago Daily News); Lakeboat portrays eight crew members of a merchant ship exchanging wild fantasies about sex, gambling and violence Richly overheard talk...loopy, funny construction. (Village Voice); Edmond is an odyssey through the disturbing, suspended dark void of a contemporary New York it is also a technically adventurous piece pared brilliantly to the bone, highly theatrical in its scenic elisions. (Financial Times)