House of Games (Mamet, David) - Softcover

Mamet, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802130283 ISBN 13: 9780802130280

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994

Synopsis

Playwright David Mamet's brilliant debut as a film director, House of Games is a psychological thriller in which a young woman psychiatrist falls prey to an elaborate and ingenious con game by one of her patients, who entraps her--with her own subconscious connivance--in a series of criminal escapades. It is a breathless roller-coaster ride of a movie that keeps springing one bizarre surprise after another, sustaining suspense with dazzling audacity. The unsuspecting audience is lured into a psychological and moral thicket of troubling implications, which bear the unmistakable imprint of Mamet's intensely personal vision.

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Review:

"[a] darkly comic script " --The Stage

...true but different, gripping but transparent, and full of genuine stage thrills. It s a great show, very funny... It works, in fact, as a sort of black farce, and is given a new tone of absurdity that is purely theatrical. --whatsonstage.com
--whatsonstage.com

...true but different, gripping but transparent, and full of genuine stage thrills. It s a great show, very funny... It works, in fact, as a sort of black farce, and is given a new tone of absurdity that is purely theatrical. --whatsonstage.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802130283
• ISBN 13: 9780802130280
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100