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...serious consideration as a multimedia artiste who is more attuned to the aesthetic ideas of Martha Graham (whom she plans to play in a forthcoming film) and Isadora Duncan than to her contemporary pop-star peers. To recast a line of her favorite playwright, David Mamet: "She's eating at the Big Table now." Quoth Circe...
THREE SISTERS. Terse, scatological David Mamet and wistful, musing Anton Chekhov make a far from obvious marriage, but after successfully adapting one of the Russian's short stories and Uncle Vanya, Mamet and his Atlantic Theater Company take on a masterwork at Philadelphia's Festival Theater for New Plays...
...things have changed. The Broadway season just past far outshone its London counterpart. The writing was better, the staging was better, the acting was better. Moreover, American writers such as David Henry Hwang, David Mamet and August Wilson had far more impact in London than Britons did on the Main Stem. And Broadway's musical hits were homegrown, while most London musicals of consequence featured American creators, recycled American songs, American topics, or all three, and were generally mediocre to boot. Fortunately, three British stalwarts -- a writer, a director and an actor -- have mounted superb tragicomedies that give the season...
...David Mamet should be congratulated. His play The Frog Prince skillfully combines sentiment and savvy, manages to be both irreverent and warm-hearted...
...Mamet and director Noah Kupferberg have a common insight into the interpretation of the fairy tales: the characters in the tale might very well be aware of how insincere or even sarcastic they, and the other players, are being. The actors in The Frog Prince are playful--they take things less seriously than many audience members would expect. The prince, for example, is rightfully dubious when his servant tells him that he and his beloved fiancee are universally loved. "Sire," the servant says, "the people love her as yourself," and the prince rolls his eyes...