A Life in the Theatre: A PlayDavid Mamet is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such seminal plays of our time as Glengarry Glen Ross, American Buffalo, Oleanna, and Speed-the-Plow. His A Life in the Theatre takes us into the lives of two actors: one young and rising into the first full flush of his success; the other older, anxious and beginning to wane. In a series of short, spare, and increasingly raw exchanges, we see the estrangement of youth from age and the wider, inevitable, endlessly cyclical rhythm of the world. |
Contents
SCENE 1 | 1 |
SCENE 2 | 15 |
SCENE 3 | 17 |
SCENE 4 | 19 |
SCENE 5 | 21 |
SCENE 6 | 25 |
SCENE 7 | 27 |
SCENE 8 | 29 |
SCENE 15 | 51 |
SCENE 16 | 53 |
SCENE 17 | 55 |
SCENE 18 | 59 |
SCENE 19 | 61 |
SCENE 20 | 65 |
SCENE 21 | 67 |
SCENE 22 | 69 |
SCENE 9 | 35 |
SCENE 10 | 39 |
SCENE 11 | 41 |
SCENE 12 | 43 |
SCENE 13 | 45 |
SCENE 14 | 49 |
SCENE 23 | 71 |
SCENE 24 | 77 |
SCENE 25 | 81 |
SCENE 26 | 83 |
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