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Speed-the-Plow
Sign in to saveSpeed-the-Plow is a 1988 play by David Mamet that is a satirical dissection of the American movie business. As stated in ''The Producer's Perspective, "this is a theme Mamet would revisit in his later films Wag the Dog (1997) and State and Main (2000)". As quoted in The Producer's Perspective, Jack Kroll of Newsweek described Speed-the-Plow'' as "another tone poem by our nation's foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy."
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- Author
- David Mamet
- First published
- 1987
- Editions
- 13
- Subjects
- American drama (dramatic works by one author), American literature, Motion pictures, Drama, Motion picture producers and directors
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Plot summary
- Act I
- Act II
- Act III
- Origin and meaning of the title
- Productions
- Broadway
- Regional
- London
- Sydney
- Hong Kong
- Norway
- Reception
- Impact
- Related works
- Film adaptation
- Awards and nominations
- Original Broadway production
- 2008 Broadway Revival
- References
- External links
Speed-the-Plow is a 1988 play by David Mamet that is a satirical dissection of the American movie business. As stated in ''The Producer's Perspective, "this is a theme Mamet would revisit in his later films Wag the Dog (1997) and State and Main (2000)". As quoted in The Producer's Perspective, Jack Kroll of Newsweek described Speed-the-Plow'' as "another tone poem by our nation's foremost master of the language of moral epilepsy."
The play sets its context with an epigraph (not to be recited in performance) by William Makepeace Thackeray, from his novel Pendennis, contained in a frontispiece: It starts: "Which is the most reasonable, and does his duty best: he who stands aloof from the struggle of life, calmly contemplating it, or he who descends to the ground, and takes his part in the contest?"
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