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...LIFE IN THE THEATER by David Mamet...
...David Mamet is the chameleon of young U.S. playwrights. Had he used diverse aliases, few playgoers could have guessed that plays as different in theme and texture as Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo and, now, A Life in the Theater had all been written by the same...
...constant that knits them together is Mamet's ear, which is a precision instrument. He recognizes the shaping force of language-how it is used as a weapon or a shield depending on what a character wishes to convey or conceal...
...mind's eye. Robert (Ellis Rabb) is well into middle age, disenchanted, edgy about criticism, a Polonius of worldly wisdom who can carry a scene but has long since dropped any hope of ruling the stage. They play out scenes before imaginary audiences. With marvelous mimicry, Mamet conjures up parodistic echoes of past playwriting titans together with melodramatic fustian...
Ellis Rabb can tango with words and he is a sly devil at milking an audience dry of laughter. Peter Evans' John rolls his lines like dice in a crap game he dare not lose. For Mamet, this play is a five-finger exercise, but so nimble that he often seems to be using ten. - T.E.K...