The Spanish Prisoner & The Winslow Boy
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Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet ranks among the century's most influential writers for stage and screen. His dialogue—abrasive, rhythmic—illuminates a modern aesthetic evocative of Samuel Beckett. His plots—surprising, comic, topical—have evoked comparisons to masters from Alfred Hitchcock to Arthur Miller. Here are two screenplays demonstrating the astounding range of Mamet's talents.
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The Spanish Prisoner, a neo-noir thriller about a research-and-development cog hoodwinked out of his own brilliant discovery, demonstrates Mamet's incomparable use of character in a dizzying tale of twists and mistaken identity. The Winslow Boy, Mamet's revisitation of Terence Rattigan's classic 1946 play, tells of a thirteen-year-old boy accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and the tug of war for truth that ensues between his middle-class family and the Royal Navy. Crackling with wit, intelligent and surprising,The Spanish Prisonerand The Winslow Boycelebrate Mamet's unique genius and our eternal fascination with the extraordinary predicaments of the common man.
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