A Life in the Theatre - Softcover
David Mamet
Full Length, Comedy
Characters: 3 male (1 non-speaking)
Bare stage
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-The-Plow, takes us into the lives of two actors: John, young and rising into the first flush of his success; the other Robert, older, anxious, and beginning to wane. In a series of short, spare, and increasingly raw exchanges, we see the estrangement of youth from age and the wider, inevitable and endless cycle of life, in and out of the theatre.
"A comedy about the artifice of acting...It is also about the artifice of living...An evening of pure theatre."-The New York Times
"A comic masterpiece."-New York Daily News
"The warmest and often the funniest play in town."-New York Post
"[Mamet has] the most acute ear for dialogue of any American writer since J.D. Salinger."-Village Voice"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Mamet is the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Director of numerous Plays and Films.
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- PublisherGrove Press
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0394170407
- ISBN 13 9780394170404
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. An early Mamet play. First edition (first printing stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket but for a bit of tanning along the top edge. Original $8.95 price printed on the flap. Seller Inventory # 28826
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Book Description First edition. Softcover. First printing of the simultaneous paperback issue. An early play from the author of "American Buffalo" and "Speed the Plow."A fine and tight copy in wrappers. Signed by Mamet on the first page. A lovely copy. Seller Inventory # 121343
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