The Dirty Art of Business
✮✮✮ 1/2 David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow Sydney Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Andrew Upton It is the simple story of a man caught between good and evil, one that never seems to get old. It is the eternal experience of us all, no matter where or when in the annals of history we find ourselves. Bob is a Hollywood executive who has to choose between art and commerce, and in David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, that relationship is a strictly dichotomous one. Art is good, commerce is
No People Like Show People
✮✮✮ David Mamet's A Life in the Theatre Darlinghurst Theatre Company | Sydney directed by Helen Dallimore John and Robert work on a lot of plays together and have become more than familiar, but their closeness does not extend beyond the theatre. John is considerably younger, and although respectful of Robert, the generational gap that exists between the two is incontrovertible. The theatre that they practise is an ancient art form, passed down through the years from old to yo
