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Speed-the-Plow - David Mamet
Speed-the-Plow
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Speed-the-Plow's Broadway run is the most recent triumph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's astonishingly productive career. "By turns hilarious and chilling....the culmination of this playwright's work to date....Riveting theater."-Frank Rich, New York Times; "A brilliant black comedy, a... show more
Speed-the-Plow's Broadway run is the most recent triumph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's astonishingly productive career. "By turns hilarious and chilling....the culmination of this playwright's work to date....Riveting theater."-Frank Rich, New York Times; "A brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity and another tone poem by our foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy... On its deepest level it belongs with the darker disclosures of movie-biz pathology like Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon. In a sense Speed-the-Plow distills all of these to a stark quintessence: there's hardly a line in it that isn't somehow insanely funny or scarily insane... [It is a] scathingly comic play."-Jack Kroll, Newsweek
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9780802130464 (0802130461)
ASIN: 9780802130464
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Pages no: 82
Edition language: English
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mrsbond
mrsbond rated it
Highly recommended by a dear cousin who loves theater. I really didn't like Speed-the-Plow at all, but then again I don't enjoy theater all that much. Nor do I enjoy 99% of what comes out of Hollywood (the personalities and their products), so a look at the people of Hollywood had little chance wi...
Kaethe
Kaethe rated it
I don't think Mamet considers women to be real people. In Mamet world, the guys lead fascinating expletive-filled lives that aren't much fun. The excitement of a Mamet production comes from the speed of delivery.
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