David Mamet must be wishing he'd made the hotel chambermaid the accuser instead of just a witness in the rape case that dominates his 2009 Broadway play, ''Race.'' Then whatever else today's audiences might make of it, they'd have to salute his uncanny prescience. As it is, echoes of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn headlines are still hard to miss as...
THE SECRET KNOWLEDGE On the Dismantling of American Culture By David Mamet 241 pp. Sentinel. $27.95. This is an extraordinarily irritating book, written by one of those people who smugly believe that, having lost their faith, they must ipso facto have found their reason. In order to be persuaded by it, you would have to be open to propositions like...
While reading your new book, ''The Secret Knowledge,'' I thought, My God, in crucifying liberals, this guy is going to infuriate a huge chunk of the people who pay money to see plays. Are you concerned that you're alienating your public? I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When ''American Buffalo'' came out on Broadway, people...
David Alan Mamet (født 30. November 1947 i Chicago, Illinois) er en amerikansk manuskriptforfatter, dramatiker, forfatter og filminstruktør.
David Mamet er en af USA’s førende dramatikere. Hans forfatterskab er inspireret af Harold Pinters, men afspejler det hårde miljø han selv voksede op i i Chicago, og hans brug af det engelske sprog, med mange bandeord og direkte seksuelle referencer, har inspireret flere amerikanske film- og teaterinstruktører.
Mamet brød igennem som dramatiker i 1975 med skuespillet American Buffalo og fik i 1984 Pulitzerprisen for årets bedste skuespil for Glengarry Glen Ross.
Mamet debuterede som filminstruktør med gangsterfilmen House of Games (1987), og har siden instrueret bl.a. The Spanish Prisoner (1997), The Winslow Boy (1999), State and Main (2000), Kuppet (2001) og Spartan (2004). Fold ud