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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's actually a masterpiece...,
This review is from: The Old Neighborhood (Paperback)
but nobody's read it.
As far as I can tell, Mamet's biggest problem in holding onto the audience his Pulitzer Prize won him comes from an increasingly underappreciated quality in writers today: his admirable level of restraint. He may have won the people over with his dirty poetry but he's hung onto the faithful with nimbler, subtler writing. It's not that his recent work isn't at the level of his earlier work; I think it just takes a different tack. "The Old Neighborhood" is three good plays put together to comprise great theater. Each of these plays hits a different part of the human psyche and together they're so good they hurt. It's elegiac, wistful, bitter, furious, tragic; it's as bursting with adjectives as "Glengarry Glen Ross" was with expletives. It takes more work to appreciate this older, wiser Mamet; but the rewards are even greater. |
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The Old Neighborhood by David Mamet (Paperback - February 17, 1998)
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