Mamet Plays: 3

Glengarry Glen Ross; Prairie du Chien; The Shawl; Speed-the-Plow

von David Mamet

192 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times)Glen Garry Glen Ross (also made in to a film starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino) "his superb play about real estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition" (New Society); in Prairie du Chien a railway carriage speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide, told within shooting distance of a card-hustler and his victim. "A short poignant study in violence and the twin drives of love and money, told with hypnotic power thorugh a travelling raconteur" (City Limits); The Shawl shows a clairvoyant wondering whether to cheat a bereaved woman of her inheritance and "confirms Mamet's place as about the best living writer of vivid American dialogue" (Daily Telegraph). Set in the cut-throat world of Hollywood, Speed-the-Plow sees two old-time movie collaborators manipulate the aspirations of a young woman who will do anything to attain her dream of success "a brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity." (Newsweek)

• Reihe: Contemporary Dramatists
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher
• ISBN: 9780413687500
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.1996
• Größe: 197 x 129 mm
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC