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...Shawl," by David Mamet At the Loeb Experimental Theatre through July 16, accompanying "The Dumb Waiter...
...David Mamet divides his one act play "The Shawl" into three scenes. This structure allows Mamet to play the audience, dangling pieces of knowlege in front of certain characters, then showing the fraudulent nature of what we thought was fact. Soon no one, including the characters, know what is or what is not true. It sounds complicated, but the way he does it is by having one character, John (played tremendously by Bill Donnelly) as a crackpot psychic who is, or maybe he isn't, aware of the fraudulent nature of his powers. He is being goaded by Charles (Michael...
Throughout this scene, Connolly seems to slide gradually into his character. His knowledge seems encyclopedic, but unfortunately, he sounds that way, too, Like most of the female characters in Mamet's plays, Miss A. is only half, if even that much, of a person. We can see this even in his naming of her without a real name but only an initial. Susman shows the skeptical, yet innocent and naive side to the character as best as is possible with such a fraction of a human being. To Mamet Miss A. exists only as a plot structure to instigate...
...town is still London -- of 29 current or soon-to-come Broadway productions, 13 are at least partly British in origin. That number includes not only Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals but also works by Americans, such as Angels in America, Kiss of the Spider Woman and now Carousel. David Mamet's next drama, The Cryptogram, will debut in London before it hits Broadway, just as his Pulitzer prizewinner Glengarry Glen Ross...
...musing in his own voice about the price of fame and about how the world seems to be going to hell just when he is getting rich enough to enjoy it. His command of language, including the rhythms of scatology and epithet, sometimes soars to the level of David Mamet, and his mutations are always convincing without any need for props or disguises...