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...mystique by declining all requests for interviews and refusing to explain the play's odd title. It appears to derive from a blessing in medieval verse and song, "God speed your plough." According to Silver, it means approximately, "Do your work, and God will help you." Director Gregory Mosher, who has staged twelve of Mamet's plays and is one of his closest friends, suggests instead that the phrase "has to do with turning fresh earth -- and of course there is a sexual...
...Madonna on the air but also later attacked Rich for praising her: "Frank has taken leave of his senses. He should apologize to every actor he has ever given a bad review to." Cunningham described himself as "in a righteous rage," and said he would seek a meeting with Mosher and Mamet to protest the casting...
...companies. Also active in Hollywood is the first voice from the new Chicago theater to emerge into national prominence, Playwright David Mamet, who won a 1983 Oscar nomination for The Verdict and in 1984 received the Pulitzer Prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross. Mamet's longtime collaborator Greg Mosher, who as artistic director of the Goodman was perhaps the most influential force in shaping Chicago's theater sensibility, now directs the two long-closed theaters in New York City's Lincoln Center. His first production, a pair of Mamet one-acts, was widely panned, but Mosher is unfazed...
...activity, Chicago theater seems to have reached a crossroads. Says Mosher: "It is human nature to look, after a while, for change." Peterson, who vows to live and work in Chicago "for the rest of my life," nonetheless acknowledges, "There may be some point at which you no longer have anything to learn from doing work with the same people you have been with for years, and who have the same strengths and weaknesses that you do." Mosher's successor Falls, who directs around the country, says that the Chicago scene's future depends equally on attracting young talent willing...
...Steven Mosher Fresno, Calif...