Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Freaks, like the author's previous collection of commentary, Writing in Restaurants, is a break from the demands of a difficult craft. It is also a chance for the playwright to mouth off and strike a number of disparate poses: the poker-playing resident of Vermont, the city boy who likes London tea shops, the gunner who belongs to both the N.R.A. and the A.C.L.U. and the provocateur who holds that women have no instinct for compromise and negotiation. Ranging widely, Mamet allows that "I am, by nature and profession, a browser." With the expanded confidence that comes with...
Questions of leadership pop up frequently. Disappointed by Michael Dukakis' refusal "to stand on his hind legs and fight," Mamet drafts a strong and dignified speech that he and the reader would have liked to hear the Democratic candidate deliver. As a playwright, he argues that actors and directors should not freely interpret his scripts; as a film director (House of Games) he discovers that contrary to the cliche that making movies is a collaborative business, the enterprise is and must be strictly hierarchical. Having succeeded in the theatrical rat race against committees and long odds, it is not surprising...
That plan seems to pave the way for opposition leader Vaclav Havel, a jailed playwright and symbol of Czechoslovakia's peaceful revolution, and dash the hopes of Alexander Dubcek, the 68-year-old Slovak who led the "Prague Spring" reforms...
...Sunday, the 53-year-old playwright told a cheering crowd of 100,000 in Prague that the new government was "a great success...
...This peaceful revolution was....against violence, dirt, mafias, privileges, persecutions," the once-banned playwright said in the nationally televised speech. "Let us preserve its purity, peacefulness, love and merry, friendly flair...