David Mamet Plays: 2 "Reunion" "Dark Pony" "A Life in the Theatre" "The Woods" "Lakeboat" "Edmond" (Methuen World Classics) (Vol 2)
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"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times) 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 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)
