David Mamet's Hollywood Satire Speed-the-Plow at A.C.T.
A.C.T. (415 Geary St. San Francisco, CA 94102)
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Scorched, Featuring Actor David Strathairn, at A.C.T.
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Simon and Janine are sent on an unexpected journey to the war-torn Middle East after their mother, who for years had remained silent, leaves them post-mortem letters with clues to the family's mysterious past. Their quest to unravel their origins leads them in search of a father and brother whose existence was previously unknown to them. Adapted into the Oscar-nominated film, Incendies, and translated into a dozen languages in over 100 productions worldwide, Scorched makes its West Coast debut at American Conservatory Theatre. The A.C.T. production features David Strathairn (Good Night, and Good Luck) as bumbling notary public Alphonse Lebel, who acts as a guide to the two twins in their search. Learn More
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Rodney A.
The first scene dragged a bit toward the end and the second scene dragged a bit in the middle but the third scene was great.Written on Jan 30 2008
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I thoght this was one of the best plays we'vd seen the last three years. I've tried to get at least thee people to go.Written on Jan 28 2008
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Plot is not anything really new, but the dialogue carries the show.Written on Jan 17 2008
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Ken in Kensington
There was little semblance of the comraderie between the principals and their love/hatred that was needed to inform the play, while the protrayal of Karen was even more wooden than that of Madonna in the original Broadway production. I liked the play for its potential, not its performance.Written on Jan 09 2008
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Quotes & Highlights
- "Mamet is a master provoker and a distinctive stylist." —The New York Times
- "A dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity" —Newsweek
- "A spellbinder of a play" —The Daily Telegraph
Description
<p>Nothing is black or white in this showbiz satire from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of such shrewd contemporary classics as Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo.
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Movie exec Bobby Gould's best buddy has just pitched him a crass action flick that's a surefire blockbuster. But Gould's gorgeous new secretary is pushing a "conscience" film—and she's got after-hours access that could sway his green light. Who's the real showbiz player?
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By David Mamet
Directed by Loretta Greco
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David Mamet, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and two-time Oscar nominee, director, essayist, novelist, and poet, has been a force in American theater since 1976. When his first staged plays, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and American Buffalo (later filmed with Dustin Hoffman and Dennis Franz), both opened in New York that year, Mamet won the OBIE Award for distinguished playwriting and American Buffalo was voted best play by the New York Drama Critics' Circle. In 1978, he received the Outer Critics' Circle Award for his contribution to American theater. In 1984, Glengarry Glen Ross won Mamet another New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play, four Tony Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize; it was made into a major motion picture in 1992 and won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play in 2005. Other plays include Edmond and The Cryptogram (both OBIE Award winners), as well as The Water Engine, The Woods, Reunion, A Life in the Theatre, Lakeboat, Speed-the-Plow, Oleanna, The Old Neighborhood, Boston Marriage, and Romance. His latest play, November, will open on Broadway in January. Mamet's translations and adaptations include Faustus; Pierre Laville's Red River; Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya; and Harley Granville-Barker's The Voysey Inheritance (commissioned and premiered by A.C.T. in 2005). His critically acclaimed debut feature film, House of Games, was selected to close the New York Film Festival in 1987. Other films on which Mamet served as writer and director include Homicide, which opened the 1991 Cannes Film Festival; Oleanna, based on his own play; The Spanish Prisoner, which became one of the most popular independent films of 1998; Heist; The Winslow Boy, adapted from the Terrence Rattigan play; Spartan; and State and Main. Mamet has also won acclaim for numerous screenplays, including The Verdict and Wag the Dog (both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay), and The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Untouchables, We're No Angels, Hoffa, and The Edge. He has also written children's plays and books, numerous volumes of essays (including the recently published Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business), and a book of poems and is the creator and writer of the television series The Unit. Mamet has taught acting at his alma mater, Goddard College, as well as at the University of Chicago, Yale School of Drama and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where, with William H. Macy, he established the Atlantic Theater Company in 1985.</p>