The first in a series of volumes presenting Mamet's plays from the 1970s and 1980s, this book includes Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Squirrels, American Buffalo, The Water Engine and Mr Happiness.
The first in a series of volumes presenting Mamet's plays from the 1970s and 1980s, this book includes Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, ...
A collection of outstanding plays from one of America's greatest playwrights
Cryptogram: "Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the soul. But it also harps on a theme that runs right throughout Mamet's work: the notion that we use words as a destructive social camouflage to lie to others and ourselves...And here through all the repetitions, half sentences and echoing encounter of one question with another, you feel the characters devalue experience through their use of language. As Del cries in desperation...
A collection of outstanding plays from one of America's greatest playwrights
Oleanna is Mamet's most celebrated and performed play, exploring male-female conflicts. This Student Edition is annotated, with a chronology of David Mamet's life and work, a discussion of various interpretations and notes on individual words and phrases in the text as well as questions for study.
Oleanna is Mamet's most celebrated and performed play, exploring male-female conflicts. This Student Edition is annotated, with a chronology of David ...
First staged in Britain in 1983, 'Glengarry Glen Ross' is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. As well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains a chronology of the playwright's life and work, an introduction giving background to the play and more.
First staged in Britain in 1983, 'Glengarry Glen Ross' is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. As well as the comp...
A guide to the acting profession by a leading American playwright. He advises aspiring actors on topics such as judging a role, approaching the part, working with the playwright, undertaking auditions, and the relationship with agents and the business in general.
A guide to the acting profession by a leading American playwright. He advises aspiring actors on topics such as judging a role, approaching the part, ...
There is nothing. A white person. Can say to a black person. About Race ...Race. Is the most incendiary topic in our history. And the moment it comes out, you cannot close the lid on that box. Sparks fly when three lawyers and a defendant clash over the issue of race and the American judicial system. As they prepare for a court case, they must face the fundamental questions that everyone fears to ask. What is race? What is guilt? What happens when the crimes of the past collide with the transgressions of the present? Drawing on one of the most highly-charged issues of American history,...
There is nothing. A white person. Can say to a black person. About Race ...Race. Is the most incendiary topic in our history. And the moment it comes ...
Race Sparks fly when three lawyers two black and one white and a defendant clash over the issue of race and the American judicial system. Drawing on one of the most highly charged issues of American history, David Mamet forces us to confront deep-seated prejudices and barely healed wounds in this unflinching examination of the lies we tell ourselves and the truths we unwillingly reveal to others.
November It's November in a Presidential election year and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for re-election are looking unlikely. Approval ratings are...
Race Sparks fly when three lawyers two black and one white and a defendant clash over the issue of race and the American judicial ...
