Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues

by David Mamet

Book Overview

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Glengarry Glen Ross, here is a collection of thirty-two one-act plays and short dramatic pieces that David Mamet himself considers to be some of the best writing he has ever done. In this single volume are all seven plays that makeup Vermont Sketches, which Frank Rich of The New York Times has called 'remarkable . . . as terrifying as a stranglehold." Here also are the six plays that The Blue Hour, The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802151043
• ISBN13: 9780802151049
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A great collection of short stories!

Mamet, in the introduction, calls these "three and ten minute plays some of the best work I've ever done, but what are they good for?" Many of these plays, especially "Four A.M.", "Cross Patch" and all of the short plays in the "Vermont Sketches" series are between two and five pages and are brief but powerful stories from the man who wrote "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "American Buffalo". One of these, "The Spanish Prisoner", was recently developed into a box office hit starring Steve Martin and Campbell Scott (directed by Mamet himself). Most of them were openers for his plays, and one or two were published in the New York Times. Overall, a very good series of short plays, stories and monologues.