Speed-the-plow

Speed-the-plow

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780573690815

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Charlie 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.


Speed-the-plow

Speed-the-plow

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9780802130464

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Savage indictment of the business and personal politics surrounding America's film industry.


Speed-the-Plow

Speed-the-Plow

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 0802191819

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Speed-the-Plow is an exhilaratingly sharp, comical, disturbing play about the power of money and sex in Hollywood, and how they corrupt two movie producers. Speed-the-Plow opened at Lincoln Center to sold-out seats, rave reviews and much fanfare in March 1988—staring Madonna, Joe Mantegna, and Ron Silver—and later moved to and had a long-standing run on Broadway.


Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations

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

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David 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.”


The Woods, Lakeboat, Edmond

The Woods, Lakeboat, Edmond

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2014-10-03

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0802191452

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Three plays from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award–winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo. The Woods is a modern dramatic parable about, as Mamet put it, “why men and women have a hard time trying to get along with each other.” The story features a young man and woman spending a night in his family’s cabin where they experience passion, then disillusionment, but are in the end reconciled by mutual need. In Lakeboat, an Ivy League college student takes a summer job as a cook aboard a Great Lakes cargo ship where the crewmembers—men of all ages—share their wild fantasies about sex, gambling, and violence. Mamet also wrote the screenplay to the 2000 film starring Peter Falk and Denis Leary. In Edmond, a white-collar New York City man is set morally adrift after a visit to a fortune-teller. He soon leaves an unfulfilling marriage to find sex, adventure, companionship, and, ultimately, the meaning of his existence. Mamet also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film starring William H. Macy. “[A] beautifully conceived love story.” —Chicago Daily News on The Woods “[Mamet’s] language has never been so precise, pure, and affecting.” —Richard Eder of The New York Times on The Woods “Richly overheard talk and loopy, funny construction.” —Michael Feingold in The Village Voice on Lakeboat “A riveting theatrical experience that illuminates the heart of darkness.” —Jack Kroll of Newsweek on Edmond


Boston Marriage

Boston Marriage

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780822219446

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THE STORY: Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming women of fashion who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. Anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an


American Buffalo

American Buffalo

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780573640230

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In 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

A Life in the Theatre

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780802150677

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In 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.


The Shawl and Prairie Du Chien

The Shawl and Prairie Du Chien

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780802151728

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"The Shawl" is about a small-time mystic out to bilk a bereaved woman of her inheritance. In "Prairie du Chien" a railroad car is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide punctuated by the camaraderie of a friendly card game exploding into a moment of menace.