
Mamet Plays: v.1: 'Duck Variations', 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago', 'Squirrels', 'American Buffalo', 'The Water Engine', 'Mr.Happiness'
Mamet Plays: v.1: 'Duck Variations', 'Sexual Perversity in Chicago', 'Squirrels', 'American Buffalo', 'The Water Engine', 'Mr.Happiness'
ISBN: 9780413645906
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Overview
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 in Mamet's home town "sweet sad understanding and utterly believable" (Chicago Daily News); Squirrels is a sequence of philosophising between a younger writer, an older writer and a cleaning lady which "memorably captures the agony of the creative process" (Daily Telegraph); American Buffalo, one of Mamet's most famous plays, is set in a junk shop where 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. The Water Engine is "a propulsive, kaleidoscopic nightmare" and Mr Happiness is a short ironic monologue by a Radio DJ commenting on the letters from his listeners.