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.


The Shawl

The Shawl

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9780573625183

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A smalltime mystic is out to bilk a bereaved woman of her inheritance.


Imagination in Transition

Imagination in Transition

Author: Bruce Barton

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9789052019888

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The move from playwright to cinema screenwriter and director is a rare accomplishment. No American writer has achieved this transition with the level of success enjoyed over the past two decades by David Mamet. Over this same period Mamet has also authored a body of aggressive critical writing that demonstrates enduring aesthetic and ideological preoccupations, regularly expressed as a set of confident «best practices». However, the relationship between theory and practice becomes particularly (and productively) rowdy at the sites of Mamet's transitional «media crossing». Imagination in Transition establishes a flexible set of core characteristics of Mamet's dramatic and theatrical dramaturgy, and then compares these with the textual and cinematographic strategies employed by Mamet in his initial, «transitional» feature films. This study, then, offers both an innovative approach to Mamet's work and an illuminating framework for cross-media analysis.


David Mamet

David Mamet

Author: Anne Dean

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780838633670

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This book supports the claim that David Mamet is possibly the first true verse dramatist by examining in detail his celebrated use of language as dramatic action. Five of Mamet's best known plays are studied in detail: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo, A Life in the Theatre, Edmond, and Glengarry Glen Ross.


House of Games

House of Games

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9780802130280

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House of Games is a psychological thriller in which a young woman psychiatrist falls prey to an elaborate and ingenious con game by one of her patients who entraps her in a series of criminal escapades. Ties in with movie to be released in September. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs.


David Mamet

David Mamet

Author: Janice A. Sauer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-09-30

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 0313052727

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The most complete record of a contemporary American dramatist available, David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook is the result of ten years' research by a widely published drama and theatre scholar and a university bibliographic specialist. Presenting a complete overview of all reviews and scholarshp on Mamet, the authors challenge assumptions about the playwright, such as the charge that he is an antifeminist writer. This comprehensive sourcebook is an essential purchase for Mamet scholars and students of American drama alike. David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook reflects the revolution underway in the study of drama, in which not only previous scholarship but performance reviews are a necessary part of research. It gives a complete listing and overview of over 250 scholarly articles and chapters of books on Mamet's plays. It also presents the complete production history of each play, including review excerpts. The authors have produced an invaluable guide to research into this key contemporary dramatist.


Romance

Romance

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-12-10

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0307490270

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Pulitzer Prize—winning playwright David Mamet’s Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors. It’s hay fever season, and in a courtroom a judge is popping antihistamines. He listens to the testimony of a Jewish chiropractor, who’s a liar, according to his anti-Semitic defense attorney. The prosecutor, a homosexual, is having a domestic squabble with his lover, who shows up in court in a leopard-print thong. And all the while, a Middle East peace conference is taking place. Masterfully wielding the argot of the courtroom, David Mamet creates a world in microcosm in which shameless fawning, petty prejudices, and sheer caprice hold sway, and the noble apparatus of law and order degenerates into riotous profanity.


The Cryptogram

The Cryptogram

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-03-28

Total Pages: 113

ISBN-13: 0307817636

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In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing—the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers. On a night in 1959 a boy is waiting to go on a camping trip with his father. His mother wants him to go to sleep. A family friend is trying to entertain them—or perhaps distract them. Because in the dark corners of this domestic scene, there are rustlings that none of the players want to hear. And out of things as innocuous as a shattered teapot and a ripped blanket, Mamet re-creates a child terrifying discovery that the grownups are speaking in code, and that that code may never be breakable.


Oleanna

Oleanna

Author: David Mamet

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-03-28

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 030781761X

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In 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.