American Buffalo David Mamet 9780573640230 Books
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Best American Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Award during the 1976-77 season, this volatile drama starred Robert Duvall in the original Broadway production and has seen revivals with Al Pacino and most recently on Broadway with John Leguizamo in 2008. In a Chicago junk shop three small time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable "Buffalo nickel". These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitimate free enterprise. But the reality of the three- Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing and "Teach", a violently paranoid braggart- is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.
"Gripping drama"-The New York Times
"Mamet is an actor's playwright...[He] senses the possibilities inarticulateness affords a savvy actor."-Women's Wear Daily
"It isn't often that a play with a dramatic intensity of American Buffalo comes to the Broadway theatre."-New York Post
American Buffalo David Mamet 9780573640230 Books
An aging actor's relationship with a new and younger actor. It's bitter sweet and the stage is all theirs for the entire production. I sat through a reading of this and was impressed by the variety of emotion and mood swings of the characters. The plays within the play added even more dimension and flexibility to the characters. I ordered the script in order to have the list of properties so that I could start collecting the necessary items. David Mamet is a brilliant writer.Product details
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American Buffalo David Mamet 9780573640230 Books Reviews
For a Mamet play, this one sure was a let-down. The play deals with the relationship between two actors - one older and one younger. Occasionally the dialogue between the two is mildly interesting, but more often than not it is tedious and boring. The scenes are short and virtually interchangable with no real depth of character. If you've read one exchange between the characters, you've basically read them all. Only a Mamet fanatic would truly enjoy this work.
I've been reading and viewing David Mamet plays and movies for 25 years, but I had not seen this until recently on Broadway with Patrick Stewart and TR Knight. A Life in the Theatre is a delightful and whimsical inside-the-theatre wink-at-the-audience homage to actors' pomposities and insecurities.
Having seen the recent staging, I can understand how examining the script and stage instructions alone could be a challenge to the imagination. Without the execution of the sight gags and the dagger-like quips between the actors the dialogue could indeed be a bit dry. But, having seen the play performed, I was eager to read it to revisit the dialogue with Stewart's and Knight's performances fresh in my mind.
My favorite sight gag (spoiler alert) the scene opens with the actors onstage performing to the fictional audience, with the actual audience viewing the scene from the back of the staged theater. In the actual background (imaginary foreground) are plywood waves elevating up and down to stimulate a rolling ocean. In the actual foreground (imaginary background behind the plywood waves) are the actors in a single-masted lifeboat, rigged on a teeter-totter operated by the actors legs which poke out of the bottomless lifeboat hull. But the actors start their boat rocking out of sequence with the stagehands' operation of the waves, such that when the right side waves go up, the left side of the lifeboat teeters up, which the actual audience grasps will hide one actor below the waves and leave the other actor's legs exposed as sticking out of the bottom of the boat to the imagined audience. That's the joke -- and the scene goes on for several minutes of overacting and tortured dialogue, and all the while the actors never get the boat in synch with the waves. I'm cracking up now, but seeing it and reading/imagining it are two different experiences.
Dialogue stultified and unoriginal. Even people from the "hood" would be appalled. I would not recommend it to anyone even elderly people from that neighborhood.
A comedy of sadness. And that phenomenal back and forth which jumps off the page.
An American classic- Mamet at his best. Character sketches that are vivid and true
I saw this play Off-Broadway in the 1970's and was mesmerized. This is Mamet in a very tender mood. It rings with authenticity and has one of the funniest onstage scenes ever written. It is a beautiful elegy to actors working at what they love.
This play does not have a lot of plot or twists in the story but does have a lot of crazy back-and-forth quick dialog that is common with Mamet plays. If you step back from that and think about what this is trying to show you about human behavior, frailties, paranoia and overall desperation, this play hits it out of the park.
An aging actor's relationship with a new and younger actor. It's bitter sweet and the stage is all theirs for the entire production. I sat through a reading of this and was impressed by the variety of emotion and mood swings of the characters. The plays within the play added even more dimension and flexibility to the characters. I ordered the script in order to have the list of properties so that I could start collecting the necessary items. David Mamet is a brilliant writer.
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