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David Mamet

DAVID MAMET

  (1947 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Abrams Artists Agency  UK representative the Agency (London) Ltd

BA. English Literature, Goddard College, VT, 1969. Special Lecturer, Drama, Marlboro College, VT. artist-in-Residence, Drama, Goddard College. Instructor, acting, Pontiac, IL. Special Lecturer, Drama, U. of Chicago, IL. Director, St. Nicholas Theater Company, Chicago, IL. Playwright-in-Residence and associate artistic Director, the Goodman Theatre, 1978-. Council Member, the Dramatists Guild, 1979-. Recipient: Joseph Jefferson award, 1973-74; Children's Theatre Grant, NY State Council on the Arts, 1976; New York Critics Circle award, 1977; Village Voice Obie, Best New Plays, 1976; John Gassner award, 1979.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         All Men Are Whores: An Inquiry         Almost Done         American Buffalo         Anarchist, The         Blue Hour, The: City Sketches         Bobby Gould In Hell         Bone China         Boston Marriage         Bradford         Businessmen         But So What         Cherry Orchard, The         China Doll         Cold         Columbus Avenue         Conversations With the Spirit World         Cross Patch         Cryptogram the         Dark Pony         Deeny         Disappearance Of the Jews, The         Doctor         Dodge         Dog, The         Dowsing         Duck Variations         Edmond         Epilogue         Faustus         Film Crew         Fish         Five Unrelated Pieces         Food         Four Am         Frog Prince, The         Glengarry Glen Ross         Goldberg Street         Hat, The         House Of Games         In A Linguistics Class         In Old Vermont         In the Mall         Interview, An         Jade Mountain, The         Joke Code, The         Jolly         Joseph Dintenfass         Keep Your Pantheon         La Sketches         Lakeboat         Life In the theatre, A         Life With No Joy In It, A         Litko         Lone Canoe; Or, The Explorer         Luftmensch, The         Mackinac         Mamet         Maple Sugaring         Marranos         Monologue February 1990         Morris And Joe         Mr Happiness         Museum Of Science And Industry Story         No One Will Be Immune         November         Oh Hell         Old Neighborhood, The         Old Religion, The         Oleanna         Orchards         Perfect Mermaid, A         Pint's A Pound the World Around         Poet And the Rent, The         Power Outrage         Prairie Du Chien         Prologue: American Twilight         Race         Red River         Reunion         Revenge Of the Space Pandas, The; Or, Binky Rudich And the Two-Speed Clock         Romance         Sanctity Of Marriage, The         Scene, A,: Australia         School         Sermon, A         Sexual Perversity In Chicago         Shawl, The         Shoeshine         Spanish Prisoner, The         Speed-the-Plow         Squirrels         State And Main         Steve Mcqueen         Sunday Afternoon         Three Sisters, The         Two Conversations         Two Enthusiasts         Two Scenes         Uncle Vanya         Vermont Sketches         Vikings And Darwin, The         Vint         Voysey Inheritance, The         Waitress In Yellowstone         Wasted Weekend         Water Engine, The         We Will Take You there         Where Were You When It Went Down?         Woods, The         Yes

All Men Are Whores: An Inquiry

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1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut     1977

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1st Published:
in "Short Plays and Monologues", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1981   -

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Almost Done

Synopsis:
a young mother to be reflects on the stories she will pass down to her child.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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American Buffalo

American Buffalo
In a Chicago junk shop three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection which came to light when the collector found a valuable 'buffalo nickel' in the shop. the three plotters fancy themselves as businessmen pursuing the genuine concerns of free enterprise. In reality, they are Donny, the stupid junk shop owner; Bobby, a spaced-out young junkie Donny has befriended; and Teacher, a violent, paranoid braggart. But their plans come to naught and are futile, vulgar verbal exercises.

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1st Produced:
Chicago     1975

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1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1976   B000NQILO8

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Play/Drama

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Anarchist, The

Anarchist, The
Cathy is a woman who has served 35 years of a life sentence for killing a policeman in a botched robbery. Her prison officer Ann must decide whether or not to grant her parole. Mamet once again employs his signature verbal jousting in this battle of two women over freedom, power, money, and religion

Notes:
The London production (Autumn 2011) did not happen

1st Produced:
John Golden Theatre, NY     02 Dec 2012

Organisations:
Headlong

1st Published:
Theatre Communications Group 2013
in Mamet Plays 6, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London (2015)>>>    978-1559364126

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Blue Hour, The: City Sketches

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the Blue Hour: City Sketches Containing: Prologue: American Twilight, Calls For 1 Man; Doctor, Calls For 1 Man And 1 Woman; the Hat, Calls For 2 Women; Businessmen, Calls For 2 Men; Cold, Calls For 2 Men; epilogue, Calls For 1 Man

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Bobby Gould In Hell

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1st Produced:
New York     1989

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Bone China

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Notes:
ensemble Studio theatre's 28th Annual presentation of the Marathon, featuring one-act plays

1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NY     2006

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Boston Marriage

Synopsis:
Anna and Claire are two bantering, scheming "women of fashion" who have long lived together on the fringes of upper-class society. anna has just become the mistress of a wealthy man, from whom she has received an enormous emerald and an income to match. Claire, meanwhile, is infatuated with a respectable young lady and wants to enlist the jealous anna's help for an assignation. as the two women exchange barbs and take turns taunting anna's hapless Scottish parlor maid, Claire's young inamorata suddenly appears, setting off a crisis that puts both the valuable emerald and the women's futures at risk. To this wickedly funny comedy, Mamet brings his trademark tart dialogue and impeccable plotting, spiced with Wildean wit.

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1st Produced:
American Repertory Theatre, cambridge, massachusetts     04 Jun 1999

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama. - - Lesbian, theme/character, full length

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Bradford

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1st Produced:
-     1990

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Businessmen

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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But So What

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1st Produced:
-     1983

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Music:
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Cherry Orchard, The

Synopsis:
the story of mortgage with the grounds of the proud house being sold to pay off debts

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov

1st Produced:
Chicago     1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1985   -

Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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China Doll

Synopsis:
China Doll is a play about a wealthy man, his young fiance, and an airplane. The man has just bought a new plane as a wedding present for the girl. He intends to go into semiretirement, and enjoy himself. He's in the process of leaving his office, and is giving last minute instructions to his young assistant. He takes one last phone call. . .

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1st Produced:
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, NY     19 Nov 2016

Organisations:
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Play/Drama

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Cold

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Columbus Avenue

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1st Produced:
-     1985

Organisations:
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Conversations With the Spirit World

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Cross Patch

Synopsis:
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Notes:
broadcast 1985

1st Produced:
New York     1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Dramatic Sketches and Monologues", French, New York, 1985   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
-

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Male:  9            Female:  -            Other:  extras

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Cryptogram the

Cryptogram the
a young boy, John, comes downstairs to tell about his upcoming trip with his dad to the family friend, Dell. Mother, Donnie, is in the kitchen making tea. Soon the three are discussing the excitement of the trip, why John can't sleep, and why Donnie's husband and John's father, Robert, is not yet home from work. Consenting to try to sleep, and on his way upstairs, John finds a note on the steps for Donnie: Robert is leaving her. Over the next month Donnie finds solace with her old friend Dell, as they try to comfort John, who becomes ill with fever. Still not sleeping, John consistently interrupts with his fears of not sleeping, and with questions about life and death. While John comes in and out of the living room, Donnie quizzes Dell about discrepancies she's noticed lately. Dell avoids her probes, but Donnie asks about her husband's air Force knife now in Dell's possession. Saying Robert gave it to him on a camping trip, and finding out Donnie knows there was no trip, Dell finally admits to allowing his apartment to be used by Robert for an affair, with the knife being a payoff. Thinking Donnie will forgive him, Dell is jolted when she throws him out of her house. John still can't sleep, and worries more about death as he is now visited by voices. Realizing Donnie's thrown him out of her life, Dell tries once more to set things right. He visits and begins to convey his life and decisions he's had to make, and how he's relied on the relationship they have all had over the years. Donnie goes further into a state of panic and anxiety. She has been betrayed by all the men in her life and she's not willing to forgive Dell. John all the while keeps interrupting and telling his mother about the voices he hears and how he still can't sleep. He needs the blanket already packed; he needs her help to rid himself of the voices. So angry and annoyed, Donnie allows John to carry the air Force knife, open, upstairs to cut the string on the box which holds the blanket. as John pleads for help to rid himself of the voices, he goes upstairs, knife in hand, as the lights fade.

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1st Produced:
New York    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1995   978-0822214953

Music:
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Genre:
Drama, full length

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1b

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Dark Pony

Dark Pony
On a car journey at night a Father tells his young daughter her favourite fairy tale

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Haven, Connecticut     1977

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1979   978-0802151711

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Deeny

Deeny
the old girlfriend in "Deeny," faced with a man she once loved, finds herself obsessively free-associating on gardening, sex, and subatomic particles. Swerving from comedy to terror, from tenderness to anguish-with a swiftness that unsettles even as it strikes home

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-    

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1st Published:
Vintage Books, NY, 1998   978-0679746522

Music:
-

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Disappearance Of the Jews, The

Disappearance Of the Jews, The
In "The Disappearance of the Jews," Bobby and an old buddy fantasize about finding themselves in a nostalgic shtetl paradise while revealing how lost they are in their own families. In the comfort of her kitchen, Bobby's sister "Jolly" unscrolls a list of childhood grievances that is at nice painful and hilarious.

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1st Produced:
Chicago     1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Vintage Books, NY, 1998   978-0679746522

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Genre:
short play

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Doctor

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Dodge

Synopsis:
In Dodge city there was a man named Keystone. How he got his name and how he died is now passed on to the next generation, though the story has changed.

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Organisations:
theatrics!

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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play Ten Min

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Dog, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Dramatic Sketches and Monologues", French, New York, 1985   -

Music:
-

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Dowsing

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-     1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Duck Variations

Synopsis:
Meandering, speculative talk from two old men philosophising on the twentieth century in fourteen "variations".

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Plainfield, Vermont     1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1978   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
One act

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Edmond

Edmond
a successful business man leaves his family on the advice of a fortune teller, he is mugged, robbed and imprisoned for murder then sodomised by his black cell mate, but ends by kissing him goodnight.

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1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago     1982

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1983   B000O9IGVM

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length

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Male:  20            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Epilogue

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-    

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-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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Faustus

Synopsis:
a modern retelling of the classic tale of pride, folly and the ultimate wager. 'I covet fame - Yes, I would have fame. For my works, and fame surpassing them, till Faustus's renown shines free of accomplishment.'. Faustus has it all - fame, success, a loving family. But a careless wager with a beguiling magician threatens everything. In Mamet's retelling of the Faustus story a famed philosopher in the prime of life claims to have reduced the secret of life to a mathematical equation. With the arrival of a mysterious magician, he agrees to wager the life of his family on the accuracy and authenticity of his discovery. This timeless retelling of a classic legend explores one man's discovery of life's most important and fragile treasures. In language, scope and theatrical sensibility, Faustus represents a big departure for Mamet, melding resplendent language and metaphysics in an eerie and moving retelling of the tragedy of Doctor Faustus.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Christopher Marlowe

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  1b

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Film Crew

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1983

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Dramatic Sketches and Monologues", French, New York, 1985   -

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Fish

Synopsis:
two friends try to remember the story of the fish who traded wishes for the immortal soul.

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-

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-    

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-

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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Five Unrelated Pieces

Synopsis:
for the immortal soul.

Notes:
includes Two Coversations; Two Scenes; Yes, But So What

1st Produced:
New York     1983

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-

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in "Dramatic Sketches and Monologues", French, New York, 1985   -

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-

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Food

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-

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-

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-     1985

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-

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-   -

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-

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-

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Four Am

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-

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-

1st Produced:
-     1983

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-

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in "Dramatic Sketches and Monologues", French, New York, 1985   -

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-

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-

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Frog Prince, The

Synopsis:
the classic tale of an arrogant prince serving time as an amphibian

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Louisville     1984

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-

1st Published:
in "Three Children's Plays", Grove Press, New York, 1986   -

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-

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Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross
Cut-throat real estate salesmen compete for the money of unwary customers.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
London     1983

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-

1st Published:
Samuel French, Inc. (1983)   978-0573640421

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-

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Goldberg Street

Synopsis:
a series of brief plays and sketches that deal with relationships between men and women, the past, communication and mortality

Notes:
broadcast 1985

1st Produced:
New York     1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Dramatic Sketches and Monologues", French, New York, 1985   -

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-

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sketches

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-

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Hat, The

Synopsis:
-

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-

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-    

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-

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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House Of Games

Synopsis:
"This is a confidence game, not because you give me your confidence, but because I give you mine." 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.

Notes:
Based on the Screenplay by David Mamet, story by David Mamet And Jonathan Katz; stage version by Richard Bean

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Thriller / Screenplay

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In A Linguistics Class

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
part of 10x25. This is An All-commissioned one-act festival of ten-minute plays by 25 of the playwrights who have been produced At Atlantic theater Company since 1985. 10x25 will unite And reunite Atlantic ensemble members, playwrights, And frequent guest Actors And directors in three separate offerings of ten minute plays, which will run the gamut of theatrical styles And content. 10x25 will feature new works by David Auburn, Leslie Ayvazian, Annie Baker, Stephen Belber, Bekah Brunstetter, Moira Buffini, Jez Butterworth, Ethan Coen, Kia Corthron, Tom Donaghy, John Guare, Kevin Heelan, Tina Howe, Craig Lucas, David Mamet, Peter Parnell, David Pittu, Keith Reddin, Kate Robin, Kate Moira Ryan, edwin Sanchez, Sam Shepard, Lucy Thurber, Jeff Whitty, And Bill Wrubel.

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-    

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-

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-   -

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-

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10 min

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In Old Vermont

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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In the Mall

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-

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-

1st Produced:
-     1985

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-

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-   -

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-

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-

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Interview, An

Synopsis:
a sleazy lawyer forced to defend himself and his profession upon interrogation.

Notes:
part of Death Defying Acts

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Off Broadway, New York    

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-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,    -

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-

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Jade Mountain, The

Jade Mountain, The
-

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-

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-    

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-

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Contained in: "the Best American Short Plays 1998-1999" published by Applause Books,    978-1557834256

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-

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Joke Code, The

Synopsis:
Looking for "wisdom," 2 friends find their paths lead them to "sadness."

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-

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-    

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-

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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Jolly

Jolly
Jolly is cheated of her inheritance from her mother's will by her step-siblings who also reject her husband, Karl

Notes:
-

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-    

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-

1st Published:
Contained in: Best American Short Plays 1992 - 1993" published by Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1993   978-1557831675

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-

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Short play

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Joseph Dintenfass

Synopsis:
an older man and younger women meet and reflect on the small and constant things in life that loom large.

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-

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-    

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-

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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-

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Keep Your Pantheon

Keep Your Pantheon
n Keep Your Pantheon, an impoverished acting company on the edge of eviction is offered a lucrative engagement. But through a series of riotous mishaps, the troupe finds its problems have actually multiplied, and that they are about to learn a new meaning for the term "dying on stage."

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-

1st Produced:
Center Theatre Group     2009

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-

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-

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Farce

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La Sketches

Synopsis:
a series of scenes which may no, probably, take place in the industry town of.

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-

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-    

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-

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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5 Scenes One act

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Lakeboat

Lakeboat
Sex, booze, and ballet are the topics bandied about by the crew on the lakeboat T. Harrison as it freights materials from Chicago to Duluth. Mr. Mamet's ear and iconic voice sift through the tedium of ship life to offer a glimpse into the soul of these men.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Marlboro, Vermont     1970

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1981   B00150K34C

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 08 Page 413

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Life In the theatre, A

Synopsis:
an evocation of the relationship between two actors, an older and a younger man, seen in sequence of dialogues, both onstage and backstage

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Theatre De Lys, New York     1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1977   -

Music:
-

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Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Life With No Joy In It, A

Synopsis:
a man and a woman relive the times when the joy in each of their lives died away.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

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-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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Play One act

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Litko

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

Music:
-

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Dramatic Monologue One act

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Lone Canoe; Or, The Explorer

Synopsis:
Nineteenth century meloDrama about an english explorer living with Red Indians despite blandishments of disgraced expedition leader who returns to find him.

Notes:
music And lyrics by Alaric Jans

1st Produced:
Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Il     1979

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-

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-   -

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-

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-

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Luftmensch, The

Synopsis:
Two elderly men talk about an old man they used to know many years ago

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in Three Jewish Plays Samuel French Inc New York,    -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Mackinac

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-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Chicago    

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-

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-   -

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-

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Childrens Youth audience

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Mamet

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1984

Organisations:
-

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-   -

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-

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-

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Maple Sugaring

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1985

Organisations:
-

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-   -

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-

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-

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Marranos

Synopsis:
Concerning the persecution of the Jews during the Spanish Inquisition

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Chicago    

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-

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-   -

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-

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-

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Monologue February 1990

Synopsis:
the speaker runs a gamut of thoughts leading up to the condemnation of self and questions over the perception of God

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-

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-    

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-

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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Short Piece One act

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Morris And Joe

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1985

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-

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-   -

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-

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-

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-

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Mr Happiness

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1978   -

Music:
-

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Monologue Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  -            Other:  -

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-

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Museum Of Science And Industry Story

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1990

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-

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-   -

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-

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-

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No One Will Be Immune

Synopsis:
one friend tries to explain to the other why he stopped a flight from taking off, claiming he left his baby behind.

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-

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-    

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-

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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-

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November

November
David Mamet's new Oval Office satire depicts one day in the life of a beleaguered American commander-in-chief. 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.

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-

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Ethel Barrymore Theatre     17 Jan 2008

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Comedy

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Oh Hell

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-

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-

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Old Neighborhood, The

Old Neighborhood, The
when Bobby returns to the old neighbourhood, the people and places of his past cast shadows over the present

Notes:
includes the Disappearance Of the Jews; Jolly; Deeny.

1st Produced:
Booth Theatre, New York     1997

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Vintage Books, NY, 1998   978-0679746522

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-

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short play

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Old Religion, The

Synopsis:
Mamet's book is a searing fictionalized account of the lynch-mob murder of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory owner in Georgia. In 1914 Frank was wrongfully accused of the rape and murder of a white Southern girl. He was tried, convicted, and lynched by a mob. David Mamet reconstructs the inner consciousness of this doomed figure, and in the process, powerfully challenges the assimilated American Jews of today by Dramatizing the disastrous consequences of Frank's attachment to secular society.

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-

1st Produced:
New York    

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-

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Free Press, 1997   -

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-

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Oleanna

Oleanna
a college student, Carol, drops by her professor's office in an effort to gain his help to do better in class. John, the professor, in the midst of buying a house to celebrate his nomination for tenure, at first seems distant. as the first meeting progresses the two discuss the nature of understanding and judgment in society, as well as their very own natures and places in our society. It seems as if a bond has been made. When next they meet we find that a report has been filed to the tenure committee. Carol has joined a "group" and has decided that John sexually harassed her during their first meeting. their second meeting dissects the first; every word, every nuance of the first meeting has been twisted into something else. Or has it? John's unsuccessful attempts to convince Carol to retract her accusation escalate to a more dangerous level. the third meeting, one the court officers warned against, climaxes violently leaving John and Carol both physically and emotionally devastated.

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1st Produced:
Hasty Pudding Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts     1992

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Pantheon Books, New York, 1992
Methuen Drama, London   978-0679424116

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Orchards

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written with others

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-     1985

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Perfect Mermaid, A

Synopsis:
Imagine meeting the perfect mermaid: the body of a fish and the head of a fish. Was she real?

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Pint's A Pound the World Around

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-     1984

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Poet And the Rent, The

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1st Produced:
Chicago     1974

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in "Three Children's Plays", Grove Press, New York, 1986   -

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Childrens Youth audience

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Power Outrage

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-     1985

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Prairie Du Chien

Synopsis:
was originally a radio Drama. they are written to be performed on a bare stage, using only a chair or two, and without props or special costuming."

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broadcast 1978

1st Produced:
New York     1985

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in "Short Plays and Monologues", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1981   -

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Prologue: American Twilight

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-     1983

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Race

Race
Sparks fly when three lawyers - two black and one white - and a defendant clash over the issue of race and the American judicial system. Drawing on one of the most highly charged issues of American history, David Mamet forces us to confront deep-seated prejudices and barely healed wounds in this unflinching examination of the lies we tell ourselves and the truths we unwillingly reveal to others.

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Ethel Barrymore Theatre     06 Dec 2009

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Play/Drama

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Red River

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Pierre Laville

1st Produced:
Chicago     1983

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Reunion

Reunion
a 25 year old lonely woman meets her long unvisited ex-alcoholic father, an extraordinary sense of pain and loss fills their reconciliation

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1st Produced:
St Nicholas Theater Company, Cicago, Illinois     1976

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1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1979   978-0802151711

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3 short plays One act

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Revenge Of the Space Pandas, The; Or, Binky Rudich And the Two-Speed Clock

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1st Produced:
Chicago     1977

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in "Three Children's Plays", Grove Press, New York, 1986   -

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Romance

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Romance is an uproarious courtroom farce which lampoons the American judicial system and exposes the hypocrisy surrounding personal prejudices and political correctness. Wildly humorous and often gob-smackingly outrageous, the play is set in a modern-day courtroom in New York during a week when there are Middle east peace talks being brokered in town. the court case at hand is unrelated, but the defendant and counsel come up with a plan to solve the conflict in the region. a pill-popping judge, a defendant and lawyer (on the same side) who hate each other, and a prosecutor with a troubled personal life are part of the picture.

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Atlantic Theater Company, NYC     24 Feb 2005

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Sanctity Of Marriage, The

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1st Produced:
Circle Repertory, NYC     1979

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Samuel French, NY, 1982   -

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Scene, A,: Australia

Synopsis:
When relating the story of how an acquaintance was killed by her husband, the speaker ponders her fate had she accepted a date long ago with the same man

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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School

School
School is a brief comic discourse on recycling, poster design and the transmission of information
- nytheatre.com

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Atlantic Theater, NY, USA >>>     30 Sep 2009

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brief comedy Piece

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Sermon, A

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1st Produced:
Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC     1981

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in "Short Plays and Monologues", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1981   -

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Sexual Perversity In Chicago

Synopsis:
Nine weeks in the life and loves of Bernard Litko and his protege, Danny Shapiro; Deborah Soloman, Dan's new inamorata; and Jane Weber, Deborah's roommate. "the human organism perceives the passage of time because of its limited understanding of the essential immortality of the germ plasm. We are restricted in our understanding because we pro-duce bisexually and the individual organism is not complete unto itself. This is why we refer to sexual experimentation as making time

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Chicago     1974

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1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1978   -

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31 short scenes; 80 min One act

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Shawl, The

Synopsis:
about a man who sets himself up as a clairvoyant, examines the fine line between faith and deception in a game of wits where the healer's role is clearly only one of showing the client what they want to see.
Helen Rose, Time Out

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1st Produced:
Chicago     1985

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1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1985   -

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Shoeshine

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-

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1st Produced:
New York     1979

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Short Plays and Monologues", Dramatists Play Service, New York, 1981   -

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-

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Spanish Prisoner, The

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-

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1st Produced:
Chicago     1985

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-

1st Published:
in Scenario, NY, Spring, 1998   -

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screenplay

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Speed-the-Plow

Speed-the-Plow
Savage indictment of the business and personal politics surrounding America's film industry.

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1st Produced:
New York     1987

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1st Published:
Grove Press, New York, 1988   B000VB0aaS

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Squirrels

Synopsis:
. the action takes place in New Orleans in the "dirty" 1 930s, in a run-down brothel, where the girls are a bit too brassy and the house madam, on the wrong side of forty, has a much too young "loverboy."

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1st Produced:
Chicago     1974

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1982   -

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State And Main

Synopsis:
Part screwball comedy, part showbiz satire, State and Main is the story of a big-budget film production that wreaks moral havoc in a quaint New england town, sowing a bumper crop of corruption, vanity and greed

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Comedy

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Steve Mcqueen

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Sunday Afternoon

Synopsis:
Two men try to understand their place among the planets when a woman friend enters having accidentally cut her hand with a carving knife. Will she be all right, and did she bleed on the ham?

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Three Sisters, The

Three Sisters, The
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov. Based Upon A Literal Translation by Vlada Chernomordik

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-    

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1st Published:
American Theatre Magazine, NY - July, 1991
Grove Press; 1st evergreen edition (January 19, 1994)   978-0802132765

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adaptation

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Two Conversations

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-     1983

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Two Enthusiasts

Synopsis:
By ridiculing someone else's story, 2 friends dissect life, death, God, baseball and aliens.

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Dramatists Play Service, NY,    -

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Two Scenes

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-     1983

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Uncle Vanya

Synopsis:
story of an uncle in love with a young lady who is married to an old and ill man, she is attracted to the doctor who attends her husband

Notes:
Original Playwright - Anton Chekhov; Translated by Vlada Chernomirdik

1st Produced:
American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts     1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1988   -

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adaptation

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Vermont Sketches

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-

Notes:
includes Pint's A Pound the World Around, Deer Dogs, Conversations With the Spirit World, Dowsing

1st Produced:
New York     1984

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Dramatic Sketches and Monologues", French, New York, 1985   -

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Vikings And Darwin, The

Synopsis:
the Vikings and Darwin, in which two people debate life, death and the unfathomable puzzles of our existence

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Organisations:
Royal and Derngate Youth Theatre

1st Published:
in New Connections 2009, Faber and Faber, London and National theatre   978-0571251353

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-

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Youth audience

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