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David Mamet in Playbill Magazine

More about David Mamet

November 08, 2017 by Eustace Schoonover in Update

Mentioned in e006 by Amy Crider, David Mamet is a great, Pulitizer-prize winning, American playwright. Want to learn more? Try wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet

His unique style of writing has evolved into a trope, of sorts, called Mamet Speak. This type of speaking is unequivocally modern: fast-paced, tough-talking, jargon-filled, overlapping, colloquial and usually filled with expletives. It is also notoriously hard to memorize for the actors, and is considered to require more from an actor than the average script since little is said (usually not even full sentences) but much has to be determined and then conveyed.

More reading on David Mamet:

3 playwriting tips from David Mamet in Playbill magazine

David Mamet on Playwriting from an interview by John Lahr

Fortress Mamet: Where did the playwright get his gift for the swagger of American speech in the New Yorker Magazine

November 08, 2017 /Eustace Schoonover
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Episode 006 - Mametspeak with Amy Crider

November 07, 2017 by Eustace Allen in Episode

Amy Crider dials into the dining room to tell a story about David Mamet. And she talks about her new show LEDA, which benefits Mercy Corps.

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November 07, 2017 /Eustace Allen
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