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American Buffalo - METHUEN EDITION
3 Male, 0 Female
A junk shop. Three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business…
November
4 Male, 1 Female
David Mamet's 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…
Oleanna
1 Male, 1 Female
Re-issue of Mamet's ground-breaking and controversial play on the male-female power struggle "An ear for reproducing everyday language has long been David Mamet's hallmark and he has now employed it to…
True and False - Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
A pleasurable read that demolishes all the ethereal myths surrounding the clap-trap theory of acting and directing. It tells you how to judge the role and approach the part, how to work with the playwright…
Theatre
“If theatre were a religion, many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical’ As always, Mamet delivers on his promise, calling for nothing less than the death of the…
Mamet Plays 4 - Oleanna & The Cryptogram & The Old Neighborhood
A collection of outstanding plays from one of America’s greatest playwrights Mamet’s play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the soul. But it…
Mamet Plays 2 - Reunion & Dark Pony & A Life in the Theatre & The Woods & Lakeboat & Edmond
Reunion shows the meeting between a father and daughter after nearly twenty years of separation “It would be hard to over-praise the way Mr Mamet suggests behind the probing, joshing family chat,…
Mamet Plays 1 - Duck Variations & Sexual Perversity in Chicago & Squirrels & American Buffalo & The Water Engine & Mr Happiness
Duck Variations - “A brilliant little play…about two old men sitting on a park bench discussing ducks” ~ Guardian Sexual Perversity in Chicago - bar-room banter and sexual exploits…
The Spanish Prisoner & The Winslow Boy
Two screenplays of recent movies demonstrate the astounding range of Mamet’s talents ... The Spanish Prisoner -” a neo-noir thriller about a research-and-development cog hoodwinked out of his…
The Monologue Audition - A Practical Guide for Actors
A founder of the Atlantic Theater Company, where she now teaches, and an acclaimed director, Karen Kohlhaas exposes what auditors are looking for It’s the first book of its kind to show actors how…
Oh
Bobby Gould in Hell This is Bobby Gould’s day of reckoning. The conniving movie mogul from Speed the Plow awakes in a strange room. A loquacious interrogator in fishing waders enters Gould argues…
State and Main - A Screenplay
The award-winning new comedy from writer/director David Mamet 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…
No One Will be Immune and Other Plays and Pieces - Almost Done & Monologue February 1990 & Two Enthusiasts & Sunday Afternoon & The Joke Code & Fish & A Scene - Australia & A Perfect Mermaid & Dodge & L.A. Sketches & A Life With No Joy In It & Joseph Dint
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…
Short Plays and Monologues - All Men Are Whores & A Sermon & Litko & Businessmen & Praire du Chien & Doctor & The Hat & Epilogue & Shoeshine & In Old Vermont
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…
Faustus
The modern playwright now effectively reinvents the Elizabethan drama with his own audacious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr Faustus Having…
The Cherry Orchard
9 Male, 5 Female
This translation of Chekhov’s last and most elusive play captures the essence of the strong story about the beautiful trees of one proud landowner family and the need to sacrifice them to development…
Lakeboat
8 Male, 0 Female
This fascinating series of vignettes is set aboard a Great Lakes steamer. It focuses in on the crew, the hardhats of the steel waterways, all but one of whom are “lifers” The other character…
Romance
6 Male, 0 Female
Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright David Mamet’s Romance is an uproarious, take-no-prisoners courtroom comedy that gleefully lampoons everyone from lawyers and judges, to Arabs and Jews, to gays and chiropractors…
Uncle Vanya
5 Male, 4 Female
A stylish new adaptation of Chekhov’s deeply human story of the relationship between a young woman, her uncle who is in love with her and the doctor who is nursing her dying husband with whom she…
Uncle Vanya
5 Male, 4 Female
A stylish new adaptation of Chekhov’s deeply human story of the relationship between a young woman, her uncle who is in love with her and the doctor who is nursing her dying husband with whom she…
The Old Neighbourhood
3 Male, 2 Female
Fierce and funny scenes from a mid life crisis are outlined in broad, bold strokes as Bobby Gould returns to Chicago to reconnect with the people and powerful emotions of his past In three vignettes, he…
American Buffalo
3 Male, 0 Female
In a Chicago junk shop three small time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection. Its existence came to light when the collector found a valuable “buffalo nickel” in the shop The three…
Edmond
Large Mixed Cast Male, 8 Female
This play has been described as a sort of reverse image morality play; whereas Everyman went on a journey in search of his salvation, Mamet’s everyman (the title character) here descends into the…
