In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing--the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a...
Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a...
The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago "takes funny and painful digs at the fantasies and distances of the contemporary sexual game," according to The New York Times. Two male office workers, Danny and Bernie, are on the make in...
Short Plays / Comedy / 2m, 3f / 3 ints.This long-running Off Broadway hit features the work of three gifted playwrights. David Mametâs AN INTERVIEW is an oblique, mystifying interrogation. A sleazy lawyer is forced to answer difficult...
David Mamets Vorlesungen über Filmregie, die er im Herbst 1987 an der Filmschule der Columbia University hielt, erscheinen jetzt erstmals auf deutsch. Im Amerikanischen ist dieses Buch seit seinem Erscheinen eines der Standardwerke zur Regie-...
Romance is an uproarious courtroom farce which lampoons the American judicial system and exposes the hypocrisy surrounding personal prejudices and political correctness. Wildly humorous and often gob-smackingly outrageous, the play is set in a modern-day...
'Mamet''s ground-breaking and controversial play on the male-female power struggle, annotated with an introduction, notes and commentary. An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet''s hallmark and he has now...
Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat real esate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their fair share of the American...
Edmond, a man set morally adrift, leaves an unfulfilling marriage to find sex, adventure, companionship, and, ultimately, the meaning of his existence.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, and teacher gives us a blunt, irreverent, unsparingly honest guide to acting that overturns conventional truths and tells aspiring actors what they really need to know. David Mamet leaves no acting tenet...
This is the collected prose of one of America's most provocative playwrights. Mamet assesses himself as a writer and included in this volume are autobiographical vignettes from childhood and youth describing the gamut of human emotion.