Word: mamet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS by David Mamet...
DIED. James Hayden, 29, promising actor of stage and screen; of a heroin overdose; in New York City. In the current Broadway production of David Mamet's American Buffalo, Hayden won critical raves for his meticulously wrought portrayal of a confused drug addict. A runaway at 14 from his family's home in Brooklyn, he lived for a time on the streets, served with the Army in Viet Nam, then spent ten years as an actor. His career was set to take off on the strength of Buffalo, a critically praised performance last year in a Broadway revival...
...same generation. To transform experience into consciousness is what differ entiates art from reportage. It is not enough to leave a theater knowing what we have seen. We ought to leave it knowing more than we knew. Shepard does not really provide that illumination, nor do Lanford Wilson, David Mamet, Albert Innaurato, David Rabe, Thomas Babe, Israel Horovitz, Terrence McNally and Christopher Durang...
Time present and time past. Both are vividly evoked in diametrically opposed plays now running in New York City theaters. David Mamet's Edmond gazes hypnotically into the bubbling cauldron of the modern urban inferno. All egos are rampant, all values degraded, all souls for sale, all hope abandoned. Hell on the installment plan...
There is a method in Mamet's modishness. Edmond harbors horrified inner fears of blacks, homosexuals and, possibly, women. Raised to consciousness, these fears are exorcised. It is a quest for identity based on Joseph Conrad's admonition: "In the destructive element immerse. That is the way." The way to what? Quite probably, the way to understand and absorb the dark tenor and temper of the age, the kind of visceral awareness of anarchy that William Butler Yeats had in mind when he wrote, "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned...