Speed The Plow
By (Author) David Mamet
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Methuen Drama
1st August 2006
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
812.54
Paperback
96
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 6mm
86g
"The finest American playwright of his generation" (Sunday Times)
Speed-the-Plow sees two old-time movie collaborators manipulate the aspirations of a young woman who will do anything to attain her dream of success in "a brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity." (Newsweek)
David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow is infinitely more than a brutal satire on Hollywood. It is a study of male panic and the denial of redemptive grace. Michael Billington - Guardian Sitting through a David Mamet play is like being caught in a sudden shower of verbal broken glass. The dialogue is so sharp that it slices the senses and there is an iciness to the darkness of the humour his sheer skill with language makes for commanding power. Daily Express
David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director.