Speed-the-Plow opens tomorrow night! Get your tickets at
Seaside Repertory Theatre!
Wednesday October 13: David Mamet?s Speed-the-Plow opens the Rep?s 2010 Autumn Playwright Festival
Please join us for this year?s Autumn Playwright Festival honoring David Mamet and featuring his razor-sharp, laugh out loud evisceration of the movie business, Speed-the-Plow. A new studio executive is approached by an old friend to greenlight a movie project that would jump-start his career as a producer. As the men strategize and jockey for position, an office temp inserts herself into the power struggle, with stunning results.
Sponsored by the
Beaches of South Walton as an Autumn Tides event, Speed-the-Plow features Drew Brown, Anne Marie Carroll and John Stimac, and is directed by Brook Stetler. Playing Wednesdays through Saturdays, October 13th through the 30th, at 7:30PM in the Seaside Meeting Hall Theatre. The box office and concessions stand will open at 7PM.
To purchase tickets in advance, please click the ?buy tickets now? button below, visit Amavida in Seaside or Rosemary Beach, or call 850-231-0733. $30 reserved seating, and Rep members receive a 20% discount ? now is the perfect time to become a member! Click
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If you are not familiar with the playwright, David Mamet, we did a little googling for you.;-) He and his work are very interesting.
David Mamet - IMDb
"Mamet speak"
Mamet's style of writing dialogue, marked by a cynical, street-smart edge, precisely crafted for effect, is so distinctive that it came to be called
Mamet speak.[10] He often uses italics and quotation marks to highlight particular words and to draw attention to his characters' frequent manipulation and deceitful use of language. His characters frequently interrupt one another, their sentences trail off unfinished, and their dialogue overlaps. Mamet himself has criticized his (and other writers') tendency to write "pretty" at the expense of sound, logical plots.
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When asked how he developed his style for writing dialogue, Mamet said, "In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, based solely on our ability to speak the language viciously. That's probably where my ability was honed."
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David Mamet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
