The Old Neighborhood (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Mamet
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Language or languages, Memory, Brothers and sisters, Chicago, Jews or Jewish life, Home, Identity
- Locales: Chicago, IL
That David Mamet is a master of language is once again utterly apparent in this play, but what is also clear is Mamet is a linguophile. The redemption comes by way of Bobby returning to his old neighborhood, by way of the communing and commiserating of a family culture, and ultimately by way of dialogue that hums, spits, stutters, and stalls. Intentional and realistic, the spoken words are as evocative as the pauses to express the ineffable.
Bobby Gould has come home, returning to his old Chicago neighborhood (“to get Comfort”), where he converses with his boyhood buddy Joey...
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