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American Buffalo
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Review:
This play is a parable about the US - not in the journalistic way . . . but quietly, stealthily, with all the rich interior organisation of a true work of art * Observer * [Mamet's] wonderful study of small-time crooks, set in a junk shop * Daily Telegraph * David Mamet's breakthrough play . . . is a gift to actors. * Evening Standard * the beauty of David Mamet's 40-year-old play is how much of its meaning remains implicit. . . . a far-reaching fable about the jungle of American capitalism. * Guardian * a great play, a vivid and funny evocation of dog-eat-dog capitalism. * The Times * a copper-bottomed classic by one of America's greatest playwrights . . . David Mamet's thriller-esque black comedy * Daily Telegraph * Mamet turns cast-offs into gold, crafting a brilliant, angry, touching play out of a hopeless scenario and three wonderful, rich characters out of what society would deem no-hopers. It seems as topical as ever in a world that, if anything, grows more unequal and divided. * Financial Times * it hasn't dated a jot. * Daily Express * The prestigious brilliance of this play is the revelation of truth through a miasma of lies. . . . American Buffalo still stands as a masterpiece of sustained dialogue. . . . Forty years ago, the critic Frank Rich said this was one of the great American plays. It still is. * Sunday Times * it's a battle for power, territory and allegiance. . . . Mamet writes apparently naturalistic dialogue that is actually extraordinarily stylised, patterned and poetic. * Mail on Sunday * one of Mamet's early triumphs. * Spectator *
About the Author:
David Mamet is one of America s most important contemporary writers. He won the Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for The Verdict and Wag the Dog. He is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company. Many of his plays have been premiered by the St Nicholas Theatre company, Chicago, of which Mamet was a founding member and Artistic Director. In 1978 he became Associate Artistic Director of the Goodman Theatre, Chicago, where American Buffalo had been first staged in 1975, subsequently winning an Obie Award and opening on Broadway in 1977 and at the National Theatre in 1978. His greatest hits, Glengarry Glen Ross and Oleanna, followed in 1983 and 1993 respectively. Mamet received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for Grand Master of American Theater in 2010.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Methuen Drama
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1474262732
- ISBN 13 9781474262736
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages128
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