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Plays: "Duck Variations", "Sexual Perversity in Chicago", "Squirrels", "American Buffalo", "The Water Engine", "Mr.Happiness" Vol 1 (Methuen World Dramatists) (Hardcover)

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Hardcover: 332 pages
Publisher: Methuen Drama (28 Feb 1994)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0413645908
ISBN-13: 978-0413645906
Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.4 x 2.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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Duck Variations: "A brilliant little play about two old men sitting on a park bench discussing ducks" (Guardian); Sexual Perversity in Chicago, bar-room banter and sexual exploits in Mamet's home town "sweet sad understanding and utterly believable" (Chicago Daily News); Squirrels is a sequence of philosophising between a younger writer, an older writer and a cleaning lady which "memorably captures the agony of the creative process" (Daily Telegraph); American Buffalo, one of Mamet's most famous plays, is set in a junk shop where Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection - in the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business. The Water Engine is "a propulsive, kaleidoscopic nightmare" and Mr Happiness is a short ironic monologue by a Radio DJ commenting on the letters from his listeners.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Top volume of Mamet plays., 28 Nov 2002

By	Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

This is an excellent volume that collects Duck Variations (1972), Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974) , Squirrels (1974), American Buffalo (1975), The Water Engine (1977) & Mr Happiness (1978). This is where Mamet's great works began, this volume focusing on his works of the Seventies, prior to the success of plays like Glengarry Glen Ross & Speed-the-Plow in the 1980's.

You can detect Edward Albee, Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett in the early works such as Duck Variations and Squirrels (countering the opinion presented in Gary Indiana's BFI book on Salo that Mamet is just a rip-off of Sam Shepherd- not that I've worked out how that was relevant to a Pasolini film!). The first great play is Sexual Perversity in Chicago, which was abysmally adapted as the Rob Lowe/Demi Moore vehicle About Last Night (don't exchange money to watch this drivel). It is decades ahead of similar work in this masculine domain- think In the Company of Men (Neil La Bute's film even took its name from a Mamet essay) and Todd Solondz's overrated Happiness. It's very funny, quite dark and looks at the way men are...

The other major work is American Buffalo, set in a junk shop and exploring common themes within Mamet's oeuvre (masculinity, loyalty, betrayal) and is delivered in the typical rhythmic language that some people object to (as he uses words like f*** to syncopate the dialogue- jeez, this is how people speak!).

As is common with the other volumes, the smaller works you've never heard of can be just as/if not more than enjoyable than the famous plays. The Water Engine and Mr Happiness fit into this notion and sit well against such works as Lakeboat, Reunion, Prairie du Chien, The Shawl & The Woods.

This is an excellent introduction to the drama of David Mamet, which I feel is his strongest mode compared to the essays (The Uses of the Knife, Make-Believe Town), the novels (The Village), the screenplays (Hannibal, Hoffa) and the films (Things Change, State & Main).

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