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...David Mamet and Jack Lemmon don't seem the likeliest combination: Mamet writes about the hard shell of life, Lemmon enacts the soft underbelly. Mamet, 45, celebrates ferocious winners, while Lemmon, 68, sentimentalizes good-guy losers. Yet twice within the past year, the two have teamed for poignant results, first in the 1992 film adaptation of Mamet's Pulitzer Prize play, Glengarry Glen Ross, and now in a surprisingly warm TV version of his 1977 off-Broadway hit, A Life in the Theatre. Mamet's austere, elliptic prose seems to bring out the best in Lemmon -- his naked frustration...
Speed the Plow.By David Mamet. Produced by Randi Wolkenbreit. Directed by Chris Scully. Loeb Experimental Theatre, 7:30 p.m. 16 October Saturday...
Speed the Plow. By David Mamet. Produced by Randi Wolkenbreit. Directed by Chris Scully. Loeb Experimental Theatre, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. 17 October Sunday...
Selma, a big Paul Rudnick fan who has seen Jeffrey three times -- "Is that more than David Mamet's mother saw Oleanna, do you suppose?" -- recalls that her son was a clever child. "But he was not the Paul we see today," she says, "because parents don't really see that. A parent is always trying to get a child to do what he doesn't want to do. And Paul's response to this was, 'No, I won't clean up my room.' At the time, I didn't find that particularly witty...
...Credit of the director, Vladimir Ragulin, the staging is deft, except for a few of the exit scenes, in which characters continue lengthy dialogue while trapped ambiguously between lines and exit cues. The gender reversal of many of Mamet's male characters--though potentially interesting in light of much current debate on gender--remains undeveloped. As women, these formerly male characters offer no relevant insight into the innumerable questions that this type of inversion could raise...