Plays: 3 "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Prairie Du Chien", "The Shawl", "Speed-the-Plow"

by David Mamet (Author)

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  1996

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  The finest American playwright of his generation (Sunday Times) Glen Garry Glen Ross (also made in to a film starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino) his superb play about real estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition (New Society); in Prairie du Chien a railway carriage speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide, told within shooting distance of a card-hustler and his victim. A short poignant study in violence and the twin drives of love and money, told with hypnotic power thorugh a travelling raconteur (City Limits); The Shawl shows a clairvoyant wondering whether to cheat a bereaved woman of her inheritance and confirms Mamet's place as about the best living writer of vivid American dialogue (Daily Telegraph). Set in the cut-throat world of Hollywood, Speed-the-Plow sees two old-time movie collaborators manipulate the aspirations of a young woman who will do anything to attain her dream of success a brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity. (Newsweek)

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  1996

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  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)