Speed-the-Plow | Review of Speed-the-Plow
Proclaiming that ‘‘nobody in theater today has
a better ear for the language of American business
than David Mamet,’’ Hodgson goes on to praise the
realism, energy, and vitality of Speed-the-Plow.
Nobody in theater today has a better ear for the language of American business than David Mamet. Relentlessly on the make, his characters are not captains of industry but con men on the fringes of society, trying to batter down the doors of the bank with the only weapon at their disposal—their heads. Sometimes they succeed and fill their pockets, and sometimes they just give themselves colossal headaches. Without exception though, their language is vulgar and funny and charges the air with explosive energy.
In Speed-the-Plow, Mamet’s latest play, directed by...
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