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Plays: "Reunion", "Dark Pony", "A Life in the Theatre", the "Woods", "Lakeboat", "Edmond" Vol 2 (Methuen World Classics) (Paperback)

by David Mamet (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Methuen Drama (23 Sep 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0413687406
  • ISBN-13: 978-0413687401
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 275,512 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) Reunion shows the meeting between a father and daughter after nearly twenty years of separation: "It would be hard to over-praise the way Mr Mamet suggests behind the probing, joshing family chat, an extraordinary sense of pain and loss although the play has a strong social comment about the destructively cyclical effect of divorce, it is neither sour nor defeatist" (Guardian); In Dark Play, a father tells his five-year-old daughter a story about an Indian boy and his pony "a subtle, lyrical, dreamlike vignette" (Star Tribune); in The Woods, a young man and woman spend the night in a cabin together "a beautifully conceived love story" (Chicago Daily News); Lakeboat portrays eight crew members of a merchant ship exchanging wild fantasies about sex, gambling and violence "Richly overheard talk loopy, funny construction." (Village Voice); Edmond is an odyssey through the disturbing, suspended dark void of a contemporary New York "it is also a technically adventurous piece pared brilliantly to the bone, highly theatrical in its scenic elisions." (Financial Times)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent collection of Mamet works, 11 Feb 2002
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is an excellent third volume collecting the plays of David Mamet. The first, 'Glengarry Glen Ross', is one of his most famous. This is due to the film version with Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino- which Mamet wrote the screenplay for. This was a major artistic breakthrough when it was performed for the first time in 1984; many see it as Mamet's equivalent of 'Death of a Salesman'.It is based in a Florida estate agents, a Darwinian exercise in self-survival through corporate means. Mamet experienced working in such a place- and paints a still relevant portrait of the binds of capitalism...The next play, 'Prairie du Chien', was originally produced for radio in 1979 and has subsequently been performed on stage. It's a wonderful short-work that is part ghost and part shaggy-dog story. The setting in 1910 on a train in Wisconsin reminded me of scenes in Eastwood's 'Unforgiven' and Jarmusch's 'Dead Man'. It also reminds me of the William Faulkner short-story 'Barn Burning'. As with the next play, 'The Shawl', it evokes the supernatural. When read next to certain chapters in 'The Cabin', these works make much more sense. Note the figure of the sleeping child which predicts 'The Cryptogram' and the adaptation of 'The Winslow Boy'...The final play here is 'Speed-the-Plow', which Neil Jordan is convinced is about Mamet's involvement in 'We're No Angels'- though Mamet had been writing screenplays for years (as is seen in 'On Directing Film'). It's a very witty, caustic play with another BG-initialed character- Bobby Gould in this case (note, Joe Mantegna would play 'Bobby Gold' a year later in the excellent Mamet film, 'Homicide'). 'Speed-the-Plow' predicts the recent 'State and Main' and can stand next to works such as 'The Bad & The Beautiful', 'Two Weeks in Another Town', 'The Player' and 'SOB'.

This is an excellent collection of some of Mamet's works that comes highly reccomended.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fine, Funny Writings, 8 Feb 2002
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This collection of David Mamet plays includes the excellent "Glenngarry Glen Ross", an incredibly dark satire about the determination of real estate agents to close their deals and save their jobs. The language in this play is funny, crude and tough. Mamet at his best.

Also included is another cruel, biting satire "Speed the Plow" which pokes fun at Hollywood executives, when Bobby Gould, the head of production for a film studio, snubs his friend Charlie Fox's idea for a blockbuster movie in favour of something more cerebral. Underrated, in my opinion, and very entertaining.

The two plays which complete this collection is "Praire du Chein", a play that was orignally written for radio and of interest due to its paralellism of a story of a murder as a card game erupts into violence, and "The Shawl," a play which shows the tricks of the fortune telling trade as two lovers plan to con a rich woman. Again, probably underrated due to its brief length but it contains some gems of dialogue.

The inclusion of "Glenngarry Glen Ross" alone makes this an essential book but the addition of the other plays adds to its value.

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