Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Speed-the-Plow
Book Review: The best of Mamet (along with Glen Garry)
Summary: 4 Stars
This is probably Mamet's best work, in my opinion, since he focuses on truthful characters without the rather contrived repartee of many of his other plays in which he seems to attempt to develop some metrical dramturgical quirkiness to provide the viewer/reader with a sense of originality. I find Mamet's screenplays usually better than his plays, try The Spanish Prisoner for example. But in Speed the Plow, he provides us with fully fleshed characters who speak like real people (with the necessary artistic license and not so hung up about verbal pyrotechnics. By the way, his style is obviously influenced by studies with Sandy Meisner from the Neighborhood Playhouse. Read the book in the the year of the life of Sandy Meisner "Meisner on Acting" and you'll see the acting exercises that influenced Mamet's writings.Book Review: took toooo long to receive - returned to sender
Summary: 2 Stars
play "speed the plow" - ordered 10/30/08 - received 11/28/08 - received a copy - could have been from amazon - within 3 days after inquiring - returned first order "return to sender". hope I don't get billed for two.
Hope don't have order go through amazon again.
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