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American Buffalo

  • David Mamet
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1970s, Contemporary
  • 3M
  • ISBN: 9780573640230

Gripping drama.

The New York Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1970s, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult, Senior
  • Cautions: Strong Language

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 1997 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play
This volatile drama starred Robert Duvall in the original Broadway production and has seen revivals with Al Pacino and most recently on Broadway with John Leguizamo in 2008. 

In a Chicago junk shop three small time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable 'Buffalo nickel'. These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitimate free enterprise. 

But the reality of the three- Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing and 'Teach', a violently paranoid braggart- is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.
REVIEWS:

Gripping drama

The New York Times

Mamet is an actor's playwright... [He] senses the possibilities inarticulateness affords a savvy actor.

Women's Wear Daily

It isn't often that a play with a dramatic intensity of American Buffalo comes to the Broadway theatre.

New York Post
Premiere Production: American Buffalo was first presented at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York City on February 16, 1977. It was directed by Ulu Grosbard.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M
  • Casting Attributes: All Male

  • DONNY DUBROW - a man in his late fifties. The owner of Don's Resale Shop.
    WALTER COLE - called Teacher, a friend and associate of Donny's.
    BOBBY - Donny's gopher.

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    This volatile drama starred Robert Duvall in the original Broadway production and has seen revivals with Al Pacino and most recently on Broadway with John Leguizamo in 2008. In a Chicago junk shop three small time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable 'Buffalo nickel'. These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitimate free enterprise. But the reality of the three- Donny, the oafish junk shop owner; Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing and 'Teach', a violently paranoid braggart- is that they are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.

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