Mamet Plays: 4: Crytogram; Oleanna; The Old Neighborhood (Contemporary Dramatists) (v. 4)
By David Mamet.
Description
A collection of outstanding plays from one of America's greatest playwrightsCryptogram: "Mamet's play suggests that deception is an endless spiralling process that eventually corrodes the soul. But it also harps on a theme that runs right throughout Mamet's work: the notion that we use words as a destructive social camouflage to lie to others and ourselves. . .And here through all the repetitions, half sentences and echoing encounter of one question with another, you feel the characters devalue experience through their use of language. As Del cries in desperation at the ...
ISBN(s)
0413771326, 9780413771322
