More about David Mamet

Mentioned in e006 by Amy Crider, David Mamet is a great, Pulitizer-prize winning, American playwright. Want to learn more? Try wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mamet

His unique style of writing has evolved into a trope, of sorts, called Mamet Speak. This type of speaking is unequivocally modern: fast-paced, tough-talking, jargon-filled, overlapping, colloquial and usually filled with expletives. It is also notoriously hard to memorize for the actors, and is considered to require more from an actor than the average script since little is said (usually not even full sentences) but much has to be determined and then conveyed.

More reading on David Mamet:

3 playwriting tips from David Mamet in Playbill magazine

David Mamet on Playwriting from an interview by John Lahr

Fortress Mamet: Where did the playwright get his gift for the swagger of American speech in the New Yorker Magazine