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Three small-time crooks plot to carry out a 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.

First staged in Britain in 1983, "Glengarry Glen Ross" is the tale of four real-estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and was made into a film starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin, in 1992.

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Three small-time crooks plot to carry out a 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.

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This collection includes three short plays: VERMONT SKETCHES by David Mamet, SAXOPHONE MUSIC by Bill Bozzone, and ARIEL BRIGHT by Katharine Long. The annual Marathon of One-Act Plays has made Ensemble Studio Theatre one of the most important showcases for one-acts in the country. This selection has been taken from four Marathon evenings. In VERMONT SKETCHES, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Mamet proves once again that he is a major poet of America...

A powerful and thought-provoking collection of stories about men and conflict.Spanning centuries and continents, Mamet uses war and its players to explore, among other themes, redemption and forgiveness as they unfold in the context of conflict in the form of three novellas. In The Redwing, the first of the three novellas, a 19th-century Secret Service naval officer turned prisoner, then novelist, and finally memoirist recounts his own transfo...

What if a porn star held the key to impeaching the President of the United States? This is her story."My frank and loving reminiscence of a life in the hermetic world of Adult Film." A lifetime of success in the world of Adult Entertainment brought Miss Wriston-Ranger (Leafy) into close contact with the great and near-great of the world, spanning across six continents. She now takes us behind the scenes to mingle with politicians, artists, fin...

In these three short plays, middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old neighborhood in a series of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows to his present. In The Disappearance of the Jews (also included in Mamet's Three Jewish Plays), Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in a nostalgic shtetl paradise, while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In Jolly, Bobby's sister, from the comfort o...

Chicago a cavallo fra gli anni Venti e Trenta: una città divisa fra il North Side controllato dagli irlandesi e il South Side di Al Capone, sullo sfondo, i vizi e le perversioni dell'alta società, la corruzione dei politici. Mike Hodge, veterano della Prima guerra mondiale e giornalista di cronaca al Tribune, e i suoi colleghi fanno un quotidiano sfoggio di cinismo e si mantengono fedeli al voto fatto alla Verità, per quanto essa sia quasi sem...

A renowned psychologist, Charles, is asked to testify on behalf of one of his former patients who has committed a shooting. At first he is hesitant, and as his lawyer and his wife begin to tell him how he should handle the situation, Charles clings more fervently to his morals and his ethics. However, the tighter he clings, the more his reputation and career hang in the balance, especially as more truths are revealed about his relationship to ...

A very wealthy businessman buys a plane to carry his fiancée, a non-US citizen, into Canada. However, an unexpected landing of the plane prompts an investigation into the man's affairs based on his tax payment history. As his assistant tries to help him put things back together, secrets are revealed, and it is discovered the man is a powerful political insider who's been evading tax law. The investigation deepens and his future is even more at...

Nothing is quite what it seems in David Mamet's latest work. With a nod to his mentor, Harold Pinter, Mamet once again employs his signature verbal jousting in this battle of two women over freedom, power, money, religion -and the lack thereof. Premiered on Broadway, under the direction of the playwright, in Fall 2012 starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger.

Una notte del 1959 un ragazzo vive l'eccitazione che precede l'inizio di una vacanza in campeggio con il padre. Un amico di famiglia continua, nel frattempo, a chiacchierare amabilmente, come se volesse distrarre tutti dai "sussurri" che provengono dagli angoli bui di questa scena domestica e che nessuno si sofferma ad ascoltare. Parlando di cose banali e innocue come una teiera rotta, Mamet fa affiorare la terribile scoperta del ragazzo: gli ...

From his perch at the Chicago Tribune, Mike Hodge had gotten to know Chicago’s underbelly like few others. Politicians, gangsters, prostitutes, bootleggers, opium addicts, jazz musicians, and con artists—he’d observed them all. So perhaps he should have known better when he fell for Annie Walsh, whose family was a bit too connected. Then again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh should have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge.Set in ...

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Il personaggio principale nella nuova commedia di David Mamet compromette la sua carriera di psichiatra a causa di un refuso, di un errore di battitura. Anni fa, scrivendo un articolo scientifico, Charles ha fatto a riferimento all'omosessualità come a "un adattamento" o a "un'aberrazione"? Per un virtuoso del linguaggio come Mamet un lapsus può essere fatale.

From his perch at the Chicago Tribune, Mike Hodge had gotten to know Chicago’s underbelly like few others. Politicians, gangsters, prostitutes, bootleggers, opium addicts, jazz musicians, and con artists—he’d observed them all. So perhaps he should have known better when he fell for Annie Walsh, whose family was a bit too connected. Then again, maybe the man who killed Annie Walsh should have known better than to trifle with Mike Hodge.Set in ...

Nel piccolo e fatiscente negozio di un rigattiere di Chicago, un cliente si imbatte in un vecchio nichelino (l'American Buffalo) e lo compra per soli 90 dollari. Quando il proprietario del posto, Don, viene a conoscenza del valore reale di quella monetina si sente defraudato ingiustamente e decide di averla indietro a tutti i costi, rubandola. A tale scopo coinvolge nel suo progetto il giovane amico Bobby e Teach, uno spaccone paranoico e viol...

Jackie Weiss, Mike Hodge wrote,  had died of a broken heart,  it being broken by several slugs from a .45 . . . From his perch at the Chicago Tribune, Mike Hodge—scarred veteran of the Great War—had gotten to know the underbelly of the metropolis like few others. Politicians, gangsters, prostitutes, bootleggers, opium addicts, jazz musicians, and con artists—he’d observed them all. So perhaps he should have known better when he fell for Annie ...