Poetry Books by David Mamet
Publisher: Grove Press
Published Date: 1990
Categories: Performing Arts
"Bob, a vicious killer, cheats the electric chair by shooting his way out of the penitentiary, forcing two reluctant convicts to come along. Desperately dodging the cops, Ned and Jim reach a river that runs along the Canadian border. The bridge across it becomes their only hope of reaching safety, but a checkpoint guards the crossing."--Back cover.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published Date: 2016-08-08
Categories: Performing Arts
In a new adaptation of David Mamet's film, Harvard-educated psychoanalyst Margaret Ford is celebrated for her best selling book 'Driven! Compulsion and Obsession in Every Day Life'.Stepping in to help one of her patients settle his gambling debts, she compromises her professional reputation and is drawn into the seedy underworld of the House of Games poker club. Seduced by charismatic hustler Mike, Margaret convinces herself that she can make an academic study of the con. Before she realises it, Margaret is entangled in a fast-paced complex thriller.
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Published Date: 1996-04-01
Categories: Fiction
The noted playwright offers a novel about life in a secluded, mysterious, and complex New England town
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published Date: 1994
Categories: Drama
THE STORIES: In ALMOST DONE, a young mother-to-be reflects on the stories she will pass down to her child. (1 woman.) In MONOLOGUE (FEBRUARY 1990), the speaker runs a gamut of thoughts leading up to the condemnation of self and questions over the p
Publisher: Grove Press
Published Date: 1994
Categories: Drama
A small-time mystic trying to bilk a bereaved woman of her inheritance and a card game on a violent train ride are the bases for two new plays by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
Publisher: Grove Press
Published Date: 1985
Categories: Drama
Brief plays and sketches deal with the relationship between men and women, the past, communication, country life, and mortality
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published Date: 1981
Categories: Drama
These seven imaginative short theatre pieces by one of America's most inventive and highly regarded playwrights range widely in content, mood and style. The plays offer a stimulating challenge in terms of selecting, arranging, and mounting the diverse com
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 2008
Categories: Drama
As the presidential election approaches, incumbent Charles Smith is looking at all kinds of challenges to his reelection, with his approval ratings down, money running out, and the world on the verge of nuclear war, until inspired by his pardoning of a couple of Thanksgiving turkeys, he decides to risk it all to win back public support. Original.
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Published Date: 1991
Categories: Performing Arts
Collects the introspective, controversial, and carefully rendered musings of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and screenwriter as he tackles American Judaism, the art world, Stanislavsky, and other topics
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published Date: 2002
Categories: Acting
Playwright, screenwriter, and poet David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. In these three essays, he describes the ties that bind art to life, language to power, and shows the power of the theatre to keep us whole and human.
Publisher: Vintage
Published Date: 2002
Categories: Drama
One of America's most provocative dramatists conquers new territory with this droll comedy of errors set in a Victorian drawing room. "One of Mamet's most satisfying and accomplished plays, and one of the funniest American comedies in years."--"New York Post."
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published Date: 1983
Categories: Drama
Comic Drama Characters: 7 male 2 interior sets This scalding comedy took Broadway and London by storm and won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers in a never-ending scramble for their share of the American dream. Revived on Broadway in 2006 this masterpiece of American drama became a celebrated film which starred Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin and Alan Arkin. "Crackling tension...ferocious comedy and drama."-The New York Times "Wonderfully funny...A play to see, remember and cherish."-New York Post
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published Date: 2010-01-01
Categories: Drama
It's November in a Presidential election year, and incumbent Charles Smith's chances for reelection are looking grim. Approval ratings are down, his money's running out, and nuclear war might be imminent. Though his staff has thrown in the towel and his wife has begun to prepare for her post-White House life, Chuck isn't ready to give up just yet. Amidst the biggest fight of his political career, the President has to find time to pardon a couple of turkeys ¿ saving them from the slaughter before Thanksgiving ¿ and this simple PR event inspires Smith to risk it all in attempt to win back public support. With Mamet's characteristic no-holds-barred style, November is a scathingly hilarious take on the state of America today and the lengths to which people will go to win.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published Date: 1977
Categories: Drama
Three crooks in a junk shop plot to steal a coin collection in this award-winning drama by an acclaimed new American playwright
Publisher: Grove Press
Published Date: 1989
Categories: Drama
A contemporary adaptation of the classic play which follows a retired professor and his young wife as they return to the country estate left by the professor's deceased first wife
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published Date: 1999-04
Categories: Poetry
A new collection of poetry from the distinguished playwright and director presents forty energetic poems, including both original and previously published works that have appeared in The New Yorker and other noted publications. 10,000 first printing.
Publisher: A&C Black
Published Date: 2013-11-01
Categories: Performing Arts
David Mamet is widely considered to be the voice of contemporary American Theatre. His use of what is taken to be realistic language together with minimalist staging creates a postmodern combination that pushes an audience in conflicting directions. The result is that initial audiences for Oleanna were aroused to applaud and loudly react to the ending of the play when a male teacher beats a female student. The issues the play raises about political correctness are turned on their head. Oleanna is a particularly complex play in terms of both form and content and this guide offers a theoretically informed introductory analysis. It provides students with a comprehensive critical introduction to the play and includes new interpretations of the text in light of recent developments in Mamet's playwriting and the intervening shifts in the political landscape.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published Date: 1978
Categories: Drama
Two actors, one a veteran and the other a novice, go through an entire wardrobe and a cycle of onstage and offstage roles
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published Date: 2014-07-22
Categories: Drama
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 dream. Here is Mamet at his very best, writing with brutal power about the tough life of tough characters who cajole, connive, wheedle, and wheel and deal for a piece of the action -- where closing a sale can mean a brand new cadillac but losing one can mean losing it all. This masterpiece of American drama is now a major motion picture starring Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alan Arkin, Alex Baldwain, Jonathan Pryce, Ed Harris, and Kevin Spacey.
Publisher: Penguin
Published Date: 2011-06-02
Categories: Political Science
David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics. In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed worldview. In 2008 Mamet wrote a hugely controversial op-ed for the Village Voice, "Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'", in which he methodically attacked liberal beliefs, eviscerating them as efficiently as he did Method acting in his bestselling book True and False. Now Mamet employs his trademark intellectual force and vigor to take on all the key political issues of our times, from religion to political correctness to global warming. The legendary playwright, author, director, and filmmaker pulls no punches in his art or in his politics. And as a former liberal who woke up, Mamet will win over an entirely new audience of others who have grown irate over America's current direction.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published Date: 2001
Categories: Literary Criticism
A master at dramatic dialogue, captured in real-life conversation about his work
Publisher: Grove Press
Published Date: 1988
Categories: Drama
Dramatizes the deal making that goes on behind the scenes in the movie industry
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published Date: 2011-04-12
Categories: Performing Arts
If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, "many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical." As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow calls for nothing less than the death of the director and the end of acting theory. For Mamet, either actors are good or they are non-actors, and good actors generally work best without the interference of a director, however well-intentioned. Issue plays, political correctness, method actors, impossible directions, Stanislavksy, and elitists all fall under Mamet's critical gaze. To students, teachers, and directors who crave a blast of fresh air in a world that can be insular and fearful of change, Theatre throws down a gauntlet that challenges everyone to do better, including Mamet himself.
Publisher: Penguin
Published Date: 1987-10-01
Categories: Performing Arts
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 bitch, to the role of today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the world as he sees it.
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
Published Date: 2003
Categories: Literary Criticism
Presents a complete picture of the critical responses to David Mamet's plays.
