Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI), September 3rd, 2000
Be warned immediately. ``American Buffalo'' has the skanky air of association with gross-out, ill-educated and far-out stupid men.
It is fascinating as a play, if one can accept the -- as Ben Brantley, a New York Times critic put it -- ``sooty, carbon speech.''
Strollers Theatre will stage ``American Buffalo'' beginning Thursday in the 90-seat Evjue Theater of the Bartell (formerly Esquire) Theater, 113 E. Mifflin St.
``American Buffalo'' projected David Mamet into the forefront of modern dramatists when the play opened at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 1975. Mamet is the playwright perhaps...
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