Three plays from the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award–winning author of
Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo. The Woods is a modern
dramatic parable about, as Mamet put it, “why men and women have a
hard time trying to get along with each other.” The story features a
young man and woman spending a night in his family’s cabin where
they experience passion, then disillusionment, but are in the end
reconciled by mutual need. In Lakeboat, an Ivy League college
student takes a summer job as a cook aboard a Great Lakes cargo ship
where the crewmembers—men of all ages—share their wild fantasies
about sex, gambling, and violence. Mamet also wrote the screenplay to
the 2000 film starring Peter Falk and Denis Leary. In Edmond, a
white-collar New York City man is set morally adrift after a visit to
a fortune-teller. He soon leaves an unfulfilling marriage to find sex,
adventure, companionship, and, ultimately, the meaning of his
existence. Mamet also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film starring
William H. Macy. “[A] beautifully conceived love story.”
—Chicago Daily News on The Woods “[Mamet’s] language has
never been so precise, pure, and affecting.” —Richard Eder of The
New York Times on The Woods “Richly overheard talk and loopy,
funny construction.” —Michael Feingold in The Village Voice on
Lakeboat “A riveting theatrical experience that illuminates the
heart of darkness.” —Jack Kroll of Newsweek on Edmond
Les mer
Three Plays
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780802191458
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter