Word: mamet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's a moment at the very end of David Mamet's American Buffalo,just before the lights go down, when it suddenly becomes clear that for the past two hours you have done nothing but watch three men talk in a single room. The revelation, though simple, can be shocking...
...first and finest examples of the new realism that arose in American theater in the '70s, Mamet's play, if done correctly, can transport audiences away from the confines of even the stuffiest theater to the world of small-time Chicago crooks and coin-thieves. And, yes, it is a world. It has a landscape, a language and a code of honor all its own. It is a world where business and crime are synonyms, where friends equal family, and where loyalty is the highest ideal...
This HBO feature ought to be a treat: a biopic of Meyer Lansky, the Mob's chief financial officer, starring Richard Dreyfuss and written by David Mamet. Dreyfuss gets to spit out some Mametian wisdom--"People dislike what they envy"--but mostly Dreyfuss and the movie are sluggish, as old Meyer dawdles through his memories. What's left is a gallery of dark haberdashery and hard faces. Still, a tip of the fedora to the reliably fabulous Beverly d'Angelo (as a brassy Mrs. Lansky) and to Eric Roberts (Bugsy Siegel). Roberts smiles and snarls through a visage of cracked...
...DAVID MAMET refuse an all-female troupe the right to perform his plays? The New York City-based QuintEssential Theatre Co. chose a series of pieces from Mamet's Goldberg Streets as its inaugural production. "We picked works we felt were gender nonspecific," says member Natasha Borg. The group got the O.K. from the two publishing houses that shared the rights, Dramatists Play Services and Samuel French. "When applying for the rights, you must list all the cast members," says Borg. "They could see we were all women." But a few weeks before the Jan. 6 performance, the group received...
...David Mamet refuse an all-female troupe the right to perform his plays? The New York City-based QuintEssential Theatre Co. chose a series of pieces from Mamet's "Goldberg Streets" as its inaugural production. "We picked works we felt were gender nonspecific," says member Natasha Borg. The group got the OK from the two publishing houses that shared the rights, Dramatists Play Services and Samuel French. "When applying for the rights, you must list all the cast members," says Borg. "They could see we were all women." But a few weeks before the Jan. 6 performance, the group received...