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As a playwright, Mamet "left the building"...

Posted by: bwaywatcher 09:51 pm EDT 10/30/15
In reply to: re: Mamet...has left the building. - sf 09:44 pm EDT 10/30/15

...about 15-20 years ago. His recent plays have ranged from mediocre to excruciating. It's difficult to imagine how this one might amount to much more. Such a sad fall.


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re: As a playwright, Mamet "left the building"...

Posted by: hermisicoso 02:26 pm EDT 10/31/15
In reply to: As a playwright, Mamet "left the building"... - bwaywatcher 09:51 pm EDT 10/30/15

Why so sad? I don't think he cares...otherwise the product would be good.

Self-parody and collecting checks...that's the name of the game.


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Did this script have any development?

Posted by: Delvino 12:17 pm EDT 10/31/15
In reply to: As a playwright, Mamet "left the building"... - bwaywatcher 09:51 pm EDT 10/30/15

That's the pertinent question. The last couple have arrived on B'way seemingly with only a few table reads, no traditional shake-down with a company and director and even a workshop-like climate with invited audiences. It's a question here, but a valid one. Plays are shaped, built, honed, reshaped rather than emerge intact from the computer. It's strange to imagine any play arriving in a full production with a star and first tier director attached without prior development.


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