and what a thing he has, Dom! he's a chicago boy whose hilarious/sad plays can be grossly meaning-squashedly performed more than most playwrights' works. David Ives has a wonderful jokey Speed The Plow take-off of the Mam's works.
judy
> From: Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2005/12/10 Sat PM 06:01:06 EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Poem/Play (was Re: Pinter on Blair et al.)
>
> Yes, quite. Mamet does Mamet's thing splendidly. But he has this
> annoying tic of constantly trying to reduce other things to his thing.
>
> Dominic
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