{"product_id":"mamet-plays-volume-three","title":"Mamet Plays: Volume Three","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The finest American playwright of his generation\" (Sunday Times) Glen Garry Glen Ross (also made in to a film starring Jack Lemmon and Al Pacino) \"his superb play about real estate salesmen in a cut-throat sales competition\" (New Society); in Prairie du Chien a railway carriage speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a violent story of obsessive jealousy, murder and suicide, told within shooting distance of a card-hustler and his victim. \"A short poignant study in violence and the twin drives of love and money, told with hypnotic power thorugh a travelling raconteur\" (City Limits); The Shawl shows a clairvoyant wondering whether to cheat a bereaved woman of her inheritance and \"confirms Mamet's place as about the best living writer of vivid American dialogue\" (Daily Telegraph). Set in the cut-throat world of Hollywood, Speed-the-Plow sees two old-time movie collaborators manipulate the aspirations of a young woman who will do anything to attain her dream of success \"a brilliant black comedy, a dazzling dissection of Hollywood cupidity.\" (Newsweek)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"National Theatre Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55603848774008,"sku":"9780413687500","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0257\/9562\/5032\/files\/DavidMametPlaysThreeNationalTheatreShop.jpg?v=1784039225","url":"https:\/\/shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/products\/mamet-plays-volume-three","provider":"National Theatre Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}