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The Duck Variations is a 1972 play by American playwright David Mamet. The play depicts a discussion taking place between two elderly men sitting on a park bench watching ducks. The dialogue begins with the mating habits of ducks and runs to examine law, friendship and death. The principal irony is that the men really know nothing about ducks.
David Alan Mamet (/ ˈ m æ m ɪ t /; born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, filmmaker, and author.. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988).
David De Silva bought the motion picture rights to Sexual Perversity In Chicago and went with David Mamet on Mamet's first trip to Hollywood, to meet with Michael Eisner, head of Paramount Pictures, regarding doing a film version of the play. Eisner was very enthusiastic about the project, but Mamet ultimately was not able to deliver an ...
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David Mamet is not done lambasting the liberal establishment in Hollywood. "DEI is garbage," said the Pulitzer Prize-winning author to a packed house at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.
Atlantic Theater Company is an Off-Broadway non-profit theater. [1] The company was founded in 1985 by David Mamet, William H. Macy, and 30 of their acting students from New York University, inspired by the historical examples of the Group Theatre and Stanislavski.
The Duck Variations: David Mamet: Cyril Shaps and Harry Towb: Mamet describes his play as Opus 10 – a piece with 14 variations on the theme of the duck. The scene is a park in a large North American city overlooking a great lake, where two old men are passing the time of day. BBC Radio 3: 18 February 1979: Heaven Scent: Barrie Keeffe
David Arquette plays Sherlock Holmes in 2015 in Hollywood. “I did this play and I played Sherlock Holmes and I had a English accent and it was — oh, wow. Should never play that role.