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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)

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Plays, playscripts

• Full title: Mamet Plays: 2
• Subtitle: Reunion; Dark Pony; A Life in the Theatre; The Woods; Lakeboat; Edmond
• Author: David Mamet
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780413687401
• ISBN: 0413687406
• ID: 04397939
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 342 g
• Dimensions: 205 × 114 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. September 1996

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