Description
"True but different, gripping but transparent, and full of genuine stage thrills. It's a great show, very funny. . . . It works, in fact, as a sort of black farce, and is given a new tone of absurdity that is purely theatrical."-whatsonstage.com
An adaptation of the well-known 1987 David Mamet film by critically acclaimed and award-winning writer Richard Bean.
About the Author
David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 2011 Richard became the first playwright to win the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for two plays, The Heretic and One Man, Two Guvnors. The New York production of One Man, Two Guvnors was awarded the 2012 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play. His recent credits include Kiss Me (Hampstead), The Nap (Sheffield Crucible), Great Britain (National Theatre), Made in Dagenham: The Musical (Adelphi Theatre) and Pitcairn (Chichester Minerva Theatre/Shakespeare's Globe). Richard's other work includes Under the Whaleback (Royal Court. George Devine Award 2002), The Heretic (The Royal Court. Evening Standard Best New Play 2011), Honeymoon Suite (Pearson Play of the Year), Harvest (Critic's Circle Best New Play), The House of Games (from David Mamet's film), a new version of Moliere's The Hypochondriac, The Big Fellah (Out of Joint), England People Very Nice (National Theatre), The Mentalists (National Theatre), The English Game (Headlong), Up on Roof and Pub Quiz is Life (Hull Truck), In the Club (Hampstead), The God Botherers (Bush Theatre) and Mr England (Sheffield Crucible). His radio plays include Unsinkable, Robin Hood's Revenge, Of Rats and Men.
Book Information
ISBN 9781849430081
Author David Mamet
Format Paperback
Page Count 94
Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Oberon Modern Plays
An adaptation of the well-known 1987 David Mamet film by critically acclaimed and award-winning writer Richard Bean.
About the Author
David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 2011 Richard became the first playwright to win the Evening Standard Award for Best Play for two plays, The Heretic and One Man, Two Guvnors. The New York production of One Man, Two Guvnors was awarded the 2012 Outer Critics' Circle Award for Outstanding New Broadway Play. His recent credits include Kiss Me (Hampstead), The Nap (Sheffield Crucible), Great Britain (National Theatre), Made in Dagenham: The Musical (Adelphi Theatre) and Pitcairn (Chichester Minerva Theatre/Shakespeare's Globe). Richard's other work includes Under the Whaleback (Royal Court. George Devine Award 2002), The Heretic (The Royal Court. Evening Standard Best New Play 2011), Honeymoon Suite (Pearson Play of the Year), Harvest (Critic's Circle Best New Play), The House of Games (from David Mamet's film), a new version of Moliere's The Hypochondriac, The Big Fellah (Out of Joint), England People Very Nice (National Theatre), The Mentalists (National Theatre), The English Game (Headlong), Up on Roof and Pub Quiz is Life (Hull Truck), In the Club (Hampstead), The God Botherers (Bush Theatre) and Mr England (Sheffield Crucible). His radio plays include Unsinkable, Robin Hood's Revenge, Of Rats and Men.
Book Information
ISBN 9781849430081
Author David Mamet
Format Paperback
Page Count 94
Imprint Oberon Books Ltd
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series Oberon Modern Plays
