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Short Plays and Monologues by David Mamet

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One Acts, Seven Short Plays
Flexible Set
ISBN-13: 978-0-8222-0720-7


MIN. PERFORMANCE FEE: $30 per performance for SHOESHINE; $40 each for all other plays.
These seven imaginative short theatre pieces by one of America's most inventive and highly regarded playwrights range widely in content, mood and style. The plays offer a stimulating challenge in terms of selecting, arranging, and mounting the diverse components into programs of varying length and theme.

The Blue Hour: City Sketches containing:

Prologue: American Twilight (1 man)

Doctor (1 man and 1 woman)

The Hat (2 women)

Businessmen (2 men)

Cold (2 men)

Epilogue (1 man)

Prairie du Chien (6 men)

A Sermon (1 man)

Shoeshine (6 men)

Litko: A Dramatic Monologue (1 man)

In Old Vermont (1 man and 1 woman)

All Men are Whores: An Inquiry (2 men and 1 woman.)
Mr. Mamet describes SHORT PLAYS AND MONOLOGUES: “These pieces were written variously as curtain raisers for other plays of mine, cabaret pieces, and experiments. Prairie du Chien. was originally a radio drama. They are written to be performed on a bare stage, using only a chair or two, and without props or special costuming."