Reunion and Dark PonyIn these two moving early plays, David Mamet displays the humor, sensitivity, and ear for language that have made him one of the most celebrated playwrights in American theater today. Reunion depicts the awkward, tender meeting between a father and a daughter drawn together by their loneliness after twenty years of separation. Their cautious small talk, filled with evasion and cliché, gradually exposes the terrifying isolation in which they live, and ultimately, their great need for each other. In the short vignette Dark Pony, a father tells a favorite bedtime story to comfort his young daughter as they drive home late at night. A foray into the realm of legend, the story of a young Indian brave and his trusty horse, Dark Pony has been called “a lovely, tiny moment of a play” by Julius Novick of The Village Voice. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Alex American Buffalo Anton Chekhov anyway Beckett BERNIE CARY CAROL Bertolt Brecht bucks Buick Butch Cary Cape CARY CAROL MINDLER CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE Chekhov an adaptation CHERRY ORCHARD coffee Crouse This production DAVID MAMET directed by Walt drink drunk Falmouth feel FIVE TELEVISION PLAYS following cast friend Rain Boy fucking Gerry Gerry's GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS goddamn goes to church gotta Grove Weidenfeld hell Higgins Lindsay Crouse Horace Mann School HOUSE OF GAMES husband Ionesco Jim Daugherty Kate Edmunds Lechmere little kid look Lorraine Lot of assholes mean Michael Higgins Lindsay mother mountain never nice okay ORTON Pause Phone Company Pinter production was directed Provincetown Rain Boy calls remember restaurant REUNION DARK PONY ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN Samuel Scene set by Kate shit snow sonofabitch SPEED-THE-PLOW Stoppard story talk there's thing THREE PLAYS told Tonto Truro WAITING FOR GODOT What's William Connor wolves Yeah