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Rose Byrne at rehearsal

19 November 2016

9:00 AM

19 November 2016

9:00 AM

David Mamet has a birthday next week; he’ll be turning 69. Quite a grand old man of American letters. Playwright and screen writer, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross. The Sydney Theatre Company is currently presenting his 1988 play Speed-the-Plow. Mamet started his career in his home city of Chicago, establishing the St Nicholas Theatre Company which saw the first performances of a number of his plays including his break-through work American Buffalo.

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