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David Mamet's interest in anti-Semitism is not limited to the modern face of an ancient hatred but encompasses as well the ways in which many Jews have internalized that hatred. Using the metaphor of the Wicked Son at the Passover seder (the child who asks, "What does this story mean to you?") Mamet confronts what he sees as an insidious predilection among some Jews to exclude themselves from the equation and to seek truth and meaning anywhere...

La commedia, la scena, la scenografia, la regia ben fatta, la buona interpretazione, devono essere vere. La semplice verità può nascere da una predisposizione naturale o da anni di duro studio, sono affari vostri e di nessun altro. Le lusinghe della fama, del denaro, della sicurezza sono cose meravigliose. A volte devono essere placate, a volte bisogna scenderci a compromessi - come in tutti i campi della vita. Che cosa è vero, che cosa è fals...

Jaded Hollywood producer Bobby Gould has spent a career reaping what others sow, until the night hes forced to choose between his loyal friends sure-fire hit and a beautiful girls art-house project. During a wicked evening of seduction and manipulation, Bobby discovers that the power he exerts is more elusive than it seems.

If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, "many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical." As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow calls for nothing less than the death of the director and the end of acting theory. For Mamet, either actors are good or they are non-actors, and good actors generally work best wit...

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Three one-act plays from one of the master stage writers of our time:

DRAMA / General

With this screenplay David Mamet gives the traditional prison-break story his special blend of gripping suspense, slapdash buffoonery, and ingenious plotting. Bob, a vicious killer, cheats the electric chair by shooting his way out of the penitentiary, forcing two reluctant convicts to come along. Desperately dodging the cops, Ned and Jim reach a river that runs along the Canadian border. The bridge across it becomes their only hope of reachi...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and film director Mamet brings his passion and originality to an exploration of the free-thinking state of Vermont and its influence on his character and work. 22 photos.

The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic authority. He believes that the tendency to dramatize is essential to human nature, that we create drama out of everything from today's wea...

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Speed-the-Plow's Broadway run is the most recent triumph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's astonishingly productive career. "By turns hilarious and chilling....the culmination of this playwright's work to date....Riveting theater."-Frank Rich, New York Times, "A brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity and another tone poem by our foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy... On its deepest level it belon...

Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet ranks among the century's most influential writers for stage and screen. His dialogue--abrasive, rhythmic--illuminates a modern aesthetic evocative of Samuel Beckett. His plots--surprising, comic, topical--have evoked comparisons to masters from Alfred Hitchcock to Arthur Miller. Here are two screenplays demonstrating the astounding range of Mamet's talents. The Spanish Prisoner, a neo-noir thriller about a re...

The Shawl, " which opened to critical and popular acclaim, is about a smalltime mystic out to bilk a bereaved woman out of her inheritance. In his review of the New Theatre Company's presentation of "The Shawl" in Chicago, Richard Christiansen called the play "a beautifully crafted piece of work, with a sharp, hurting edge. . . . His [Mamet's] spinning of the yarn . . . is ingenious, and his control of the sounds and rhythms of dialogue has ne...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Mamet's brilliant exploration of the 1913 Leo Frank case stands beside "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a powerful exploration of justice, racism, and the "rush to judgment." The novel is based on the trial and lynching of a Jewish factory manager wrongly convicted of murder.

Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus.Mamet's Faustus—like Marlowe's and Goethe's before him—is a philosopher whose life's work has been the pursuit of "the secret engine of the world.” He is also the distracted father of a small, adori...

In these two moving early plays, Mamet displays the humor, sensitivity, and ear for language that have made him one of the most celebrated playwrights in American theater today.

This play was published to coincide with its British premiere, directed by Harold Pinter, at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

In The Old Neighborhood David Mamet confirms his stature as a master of the American stage, a writer who can turn the most innocuous phrase into a lit fuse and a family reunion into a perfectly orchestrated firestorm of sympathy, yearning, and blistering authentic rage. In these three short plays, a middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to the old-neighborhood in a series of encounters with his past that, however briefly, open windows on his present...

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".