Characteristics:
Street-smart and edgy dialogue
Profanity is very relevant
Clipped dialogue
One-liners
Poetic
Streetwise slang
"The people who speak that way tell the truth. They don't institutionalize thought."
- Elements of Mamet's style include minimalism and a lack of stage directions
- Mamet's plays often deal with the decline of morality in a world which has become an emotional and spiritual wasteland.
- Themes explore a desperate, obsessed landscape that is deeply American.
- Common theme in plays is "the potentially destructive force of the American Dream"
Some say Mamet's female characters are nothing more than shallow foils for his misogynistic males.
http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/david_mamet_001.html
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc31.html
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