A plot to steal a potentially valuable buffalo-head nickel binds together two mistrusting, disaffected schlubs and their young, would-be accomplice. David Mamet adapted the... more...screenplay from his hard-biting 1975 stage play.
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Advantages: great play,dialogue and characters.good actors Disadvantages: boring.same set all through.The director was bored!
American Buffalo is one of the best and most popular David Mammet plays.Written in late seventies,it was the play that made its writer famous.It is the story of two crooks,Teach and Don, who plan a robbery which never takes place.
The play's biggest virtue is its dialogue.Mamet's dialogues are so unique that a new term was invented:Mametspeak,which is of course the singular way that his character's express themselves.
The dialogue is the centre ...
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