A Life in the Theatre

David Mamet

Full Length Comedy

Characters: 3 male (1 non-speaking)

Bare stage

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-The-Plow takes us into the lives of two actors: John young and rising into the first flush of his success; the other Robert older anxious and beginning to wane. In a series of short spare and increasingly raw exchanges we see the estrangement of youth from age and the wider inevitable and