Synopsis
Mamet Plays 2 - Reunion & Dark Pony & A Life in the Theatre & The Woods & Lakeboat & Edmond
Published by Methuen
"It would be hard to over-praise the way Mr Mamet suggests behind the probing, joshing family chat, an extraordinary sense of pain and loss...although the play has a strong social comment about the destructively cyclical effect of divorce, it is neither sour nor defeatist" ~ Guardian
In Dark Play, a father tells his five-year-old daughter a story about an Indian boy and his pony "a subtle, lyrical, dreamlike vignette" ~ Star Tribune
In The Woods, a young man and woman spend the night in a cabin together "a beautifully conceived love story" ~ Chicago Daily News
Lakeboat portrays eight crew members of a merchant ship exchanging wild fantasies about sex, gambling and violence - "Richly overheard talk...loopy, funny construction" ~ Village Voice
Edmond is an odyssey through the disturbing, suspended dark void of a contemporary New York "it is also a technically adventurous piece pared brilliantly to the bone, highly theatrical in its scenic elisions" ~ Financial Times