Theater News Flash: David Mamet Won’t—Or Can’t—Shut the Fuck Up
posted by on May 6 at 11:20 AM
Please enjoy this in-the-trenches report from someone who suffered through Mamet reading his verse adaptation of Faust at the 92nd Street Y:
Mamet commented mildly as literally half of a very full auditorium made for the exits. He was bombing, and he did seem to enjoy it, as if he was involved in seeing what would happen if he persisted. If his play-in-verse lacked drama, at least he could enjoy the drama of human nature. When all the brave ones had left, the Kauffman audience looked like a tooth had been extracted…
Between this and the rambling, I-just-rediscovered-civics-and-now-I’m-a-conservative essay he wrote for the Village Voice a few months ago, I’m starting to worry the about the old man. He’s always had a little bit of the crazy-eyes:
I'd blow him.
This is nothing new. In the seventies he couldn't shut up about Vietnam.
Why is it that when someone leaves your ranks you lefties have to savage them? He changed his mind about liberalism, get over it.
Have you read the essay, CA? I'm all for defectors to conservatism, but the essay has the slippery, rambling feel of a man losing his grip.
Yep, I read it. David Horowitz linked to it when it came out. And yes it is rambling.
I don't see "crazy," I see some kind of sadness, like the look of somebody who knows it's all over but just can't quite say goodbye yet.
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