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In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing - the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of danger. On a night in 1959 a boy is waiting to go on a camping trip with his father. His mother wants him to go to sleep. A family friend is trying to entertain them - or perhaps distract them. Because in the dark corners of this domestic scene, there are rustlings that none of the players want to hear. And out of things as innocuous as a shattered teapot and a ripped blanket, Mamet re-creates a child's terrifying discovery that the grownups are speaking in code, and that that code may never be breakable.

Book details

• Full title: The Cryptogram
• Author: David Mamet
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9780679746539
• ISBN: 0679746536
• ID: 11455381
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 127 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 132 × 9 mm
• Date of publishing: April 1995

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