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| Name: |
David Alan Mamet | | Variant Name: |
David Mamet | | Birth Date: |
November 30, 1947 | | Place of Birth: |
Chicago, Illinois, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
writer, playwright/dramatist, screenwriter, director/producer |
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 Biography of David Mamet
7076 words, approx. 23.6 pages
 David Mamet was born and raised in Chicago. "We have some strange local mythology. No Chicagoan makes gangster jokes or thinks of the City as particularly violent (which it isn't). (Al Capone did say, 'You get a lot farther with a kind word and a gun tha... summary from source:
 Biography of David (Alan) Mamet
3796 words, approx. 12.7 pages
"In this country of incessant obbligatos accompanying all activity--music in offices, and elevators, tapes in cars, radios in restaurants--Mamet has heard the ultimate Muzak, the dissonant din of people yammering at one another and not connecting. He is... summary from source:
 Biography of David Alan Mamet
1616 words, approx. 5.4 pages
Playwright and screenwriter David Mamet is highly praised for his accurate rendering of American vernacular, through which he explores the relationship between language and behavior. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 30, 1947, he studied at Goddard...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 A Life in the Theatre Information
161 words, approx. 1 pages
 A Life in the Theatre is a 1978 play by David Mamet. It focuses on the relationship between two actors, the play's only characters. One, Robert, is a stage veteran whilst John is a young, promising actor. As the play goes on they are involved in a...
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 Stage Directions Making a Life in the Theatre
12/01/2007: 1,528 words, approx. 5 pages You've earned your degree, here's how to use it to earn your living. Thousands of students are enrolled in theatre programs across the country. Though not required, studying theatre prepares a student for the profession. Once a student graduates, though, the prospects can... summary from source:
The Independent - London Theatre: A life betrayed
11/17/1999: 459 words, approx. 2 pages COLLECTED STORIES THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET LONDON AFTER THE fiasco of last year's Antony and Cleopatra at the National, it would be a pleasure to report that Helen Mirren had found a sturdier vehicle in which to parade stage talents put in the shade...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Martin Duberman
503 words, approx. 2 pages
[A Life in the Theatre is Mamet's] least characteristic play. Ordinarily he works from an oblique angle of vision, in flat tones. Life is all surface flamboyance, sight gags and gimmickry, lush language and posturing—in short, closer to a Feydeau farce than to the Beckett-like minimalism to which Mamet more typically aspires…. At its best, Life is a mildly amusing diversion; at its more frequent worst, it is a tedious, offensively banal caricature of what daily life in the theater is ac... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Colin Ludlow
325 words, approx. 1 pages
David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre offers a decidedly unglamorous view of the show business world. It emphasises not the ecstatic moments of applause, nor the passionate relationships of those caught up in that world, but the mundane routine of the acting profession. The play's title is surprisingly literal. It is a way of life that the drama seeks to evoke, and it concentrates exclusively upon the theatre, showing almost no concern for anything that takes place beyond the stage door. The pla... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
279 words, approx. 1 pages
I disliked [A Life in the Theatre]. But I soon realized that my annoyance was not induced by the fact that it was a trifle (talented artists are permitted their piffle) but by the gush with which it has been received by most of the press—celebrated as if it were the best of Mamet. It is composed of glimpses of two actors, preparing back-stage for performances and, on stage, acting bits from plays they appear in at various times. The "life in the theatre" consists of the display of such ...
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