... Eugene 18 Porterfield , Christopher 46 Oppenheimer , George 119 , 268 Porto , Gary 41 , 264 Orr , David 366 Powers , Ron 40 Osborne , Charles 200 , 302 Pratt , Cornelius B. 166 , 365 O'Shea , Steven 75 , 320 Preston , Marilynn 30 ...
71 . 87. Bigsby , Contemporary Writers , pp . 19–20 . 88. Mamet , Writing in Restaurants , p . 71 . 89. Samuel Beckett , The Unnameable ( London : Calder & Boyars , 1958 ) , p . 132 . 90. Fraser , " Mamet's Plays , " p . L7 . 91.
Beginning with his Chicago origins, the work goes on to cover Mamet's relationship to Judaism, his reputation for machismo, as well as discussions of and excerpts from early plays and stories that have never before been referenced in print.
Walt Jones, who would direct Reunion and Dark Pony at Yale in October 1977, first met Mamet at that time. That summer Robert Brustein, at the time head of the Yale School of Drama and founding director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, ...
David Mamet
David Mamet gained regard as a leading American playwright and screenwriter with such works as his 1981 debut screenplay The Postman Always Rings Twice and the 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross.
This comprehensive biography uses extensive theater and film archives to reveal Mamet's ideas on writing, acting, and directing, covering his beginnings in Chicago, his relationship to Judaism and reputation for machismo, as well as ...
David Mamet: A Resource and Production Sourcebook reflects the revolution underway in the study of drama, in which not only previous scholarship but performance reviews are a necessary part of research.
... nineteen eighty - eight would be a significant year : Mamet's second child , Zosia , was born on 2 February ; Uncle ... Boston in October ; Things Change was released in October . 28. A similar statement appears in Lynn Mamet's ...