Plays
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA selection of plays by the American playwrigth David Mamet.
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Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2014-10-03
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0802191436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Mamet is one of America’s most celebrated playwrights. The author of plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, and children’s books, he has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross. The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago is about two office workers, Danny and Bernie, on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970s. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are not only lovers but roommates, and their story quickly evolves into a modern romance in all its sticky details. The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations “a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless.”
Short Plays and Monologues
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9780822207207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese seven imaginative short theatre pieces by one of America's most inventive and highly regarded playwrights range widely in content, mood and style. The plays offer a stimulating challenge in terms of selecting, arranging, and mounting the diverse com
American Buffalo
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9780573640230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a Chicago junk shop three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable "Buffalo nickel". These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitmate free enterprise. But the reality of the three--Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing; and "Teach"; a violently paranoid braggart--is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.
A Life in the Theatre
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780802150677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of scenes we see two actors - a seasoned pofessional and a novice - backstage and onstage going through a cycle of roles and an entire wardrobe of costumes.
Speed-the-plow
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780573690815
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a hot male movie star, and he has brought it to his friend Bobby Gould, head of production for a major film company. Both see the script as a ticket to the really big table where the power is. The star wants to do it; all they have to do is pitch it to their boss in the morning. Meanwhile, Bobby bets Charlie that he can seduce the secretary temp. As a ruse, he has given her a novel "by some Eastern sissy writer" that he is supposed to read before saying "thanks but no thanks." She is determined that the novel, not the trite vehicle, should be the company's next project. When she does sleep with Bobby, he finds the experience is so transmogrifying that Charlie must plead with Bobby not to pitch the sissy film. - Publisher's note.
Oleanna
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2012-03-28
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 030781761X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a terrifyingly short time, a male college instructor and his female student descend from a discussion of her grades into a modern reprise of the Inquisition. Innocuous remarks suddenly turn damning. Socratic dialogue gives way to heated assault. And the relationship between a somewhat fatuous teacher and his seemingly hapless pupil turns into a fiendishly accurate X ray of the mechanisms of power, censorship, and abuse.
Oh, Hell!
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780573692543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBobby Gould in Hell by David Mamet Short Play, Comedy Characters: 3 male, 1 female Interior Set This is Bobby Gould's day of reckoning. The conniving movie mogul from Speed the Plow awakes in a strange room. A loquacious interrogator in fishing waders enters. Gould argues his case. A woman he has wronged appears and gets so carried away that she says some sassy things to the Interrogator. In the end, Bobby is damned for being "cruel without bei
Edmond
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9780413773692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first single-volume edition of this stunning early Mamet play You know how much of our life we're alive, you and me? Nothing. Two minutes out of the year. When we meet someone new, when we get married, when, when, when, when we're in difficulties… once in our life at the death of someone that we love. That's… in a carcrash… and that's it. You know, you know, we're sheltered… A fortune-teller's teasing rumination sends Edmond lurching into New York City's hellish underworld, his whole life abandoned in a searing quest for self-discovery and redemption. A furious, unflinching, whirlwind of a play first produced in 1982. "A stunning amorality play, glittering and disturbing, suspended in the dark void of contemporary New York. It is also a technically adventurous piece pared brilliantly to the bone, highly theatrical in its scenic elisions" Financial Times "A riveting theatrical experience that illuminates the heart of darkness" Newsweek Publication of this edition ties in with a production in July 2003 at the Royal National Theatre starring Kenneth Branagh.
Theatre
Author: David Mamet
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2010-04-07
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1429931787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf 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 without the interference of a director, however well-intentioned. Issue plays, political correctness, method actors, impossible directions, Stanislavksy, and elitists all fall under Mamet's critical gaze. To students, teachers, and directors who crave a blast of fresh air in a world that can be insular and fearful of change, Theatre throws down a gauntlet that challenges everyone to do better, including Mamet himself.
