Speed-the-Plow
Speed-the-Plow Author: David Mamet
First Performance: 1988, New York
Published: 1988
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Gould's office and home, Hollywood, 1980s
Cast: 2m, 1f
Bobby Gould, just promoted to Head of Production in a big film studio, learns from his friend and junior Charlie Fox that a top director is so interested in one of their scripts set in a prison that he is offering to ‘cross the street’ and work for their production company. Excited at the prospect and congratulating each other on their mutual loyalty, the two men set up a meeting with the company chief the following day. Fox bets Gould $500 that he cannot date his temporary secretary Karen that evening. Admitting that he is a ‘whore’ interested only in the money-making potential of a script, Gould gets Karen to read a book about...
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