4 Plays by David Mamet
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Overview: David Alan Mamet, born November 30, 1947, is an American playwright, filmmaker and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). He first gained critical acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway 1970s plays: The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and American Buffalo. His plays Race and The Penitent, respectively, opened on Broadway in 2009 and previewed off-Broadway in 2017.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
Faustus:
Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Doctor Faustus.
Mamet’s Faustus, like Marlowe’s and Goethe’s before him, is a philosopher whose life’s work has been the pursuit of the secret engine of the world. He is also the distracted father of a small, adoring son. Out of the clash between love and intellect and the fatal operation of Faustus’ pride, Mamet fashions a work that is at once caustic and heart-wrenching and whose resplendent language marries metaphysics to conman’s patter. A meditation on reason and folly, fathers and sons and a breathtaking display of magic both literal and theatrical, Faustus is a triumph.
Keep Your Pantheon and School:
Two comic short plays by one of the theatre’s most celebrated and compelling writers.
Keep Your Pantheon is a rousing farce that follows the fortunes and misfortunes of an impoverished acting troupe in ancient Rome. Featuring an over-the-hill acting guru who lusts after both his toga-clad protégé and a spot in the Sicilian Cork Festival, Mamet’s play returns to the roots of comedy, paying homage to the Roman playwright Plautus, whose works also inspired William Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors and the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
Also included in this volume, School is a crackling curtain-raiser in which two teachers shoot back and forth on topics ranging from pedophilia to recycling.
Race:
When a rich white man is accused of raping a younger African American woman, he looks to a multicultural law firm for his defense. But even as his lawyers, one of them white and another black, begin to strategize, they must confront their own biases and assumptions about race relations in America.
The Cryptogram:
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 recreates a child terrifying discovery that the grownups are speaking in code and that that code may never be breakable.
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