Woods, Lakeboat, Edmond

by David Mamet

Book Overview

The Woods, described by the Chicago Daily News as a "beautifully conceived love story," is a modern dramatic parable in which a young man and woman who spend a night in his family's cabin experience passion, then disillusionment, but are in the end reconciled by mutual need.

In Lakeboat, eight crew members aboard a merchant ship exchange their wild fantasies about sex, gambling, and violence.

In Edmond, a man set morally adrift leaves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802151094
• ISBN13: 9780802151094
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

great book

woods is a wonderfull and exiting play, and Edmond is a facanating one. Edmond has a rythem of modern play very much lke a movie.

Edmond is Brilliant

Because of the sheer power of one of the plays contained within this book, I have given this collection 4 out of 5 possible stars. Edmond is amazingly stark and real, and offers a complete reversal in character, and the last scene seems like an epiphony. This play is easily my favorite, and I have seen it performed in London by Kenneth Branag, it was most astonishing and brilliant. I have not read or seen either of the two other plays contained within theis volume, but I will say that Edmond is definitely a great reason to buy this book.

three mamet plays who all share the weakness of modern men

the bool consists of three plays: Lakeboat- mamet's first play who tells the story of a boat crew who's one of his members is missing. throughout the play, rhe crew is exposed to its weaknesses and desperation, it's a bitter-sweet play, but it lacks the surprise element that can be seen in "glengarry glen ross" etc. The woods- a stoory of an imossible love between an educated yet emotionally cold man and his needy girlfriend, it's a play that floats steadily untill the big burst in the end, for patiant readers only! Edmond- a violent play about a buffled young man who decides to make a journey in search of maening and ends up ruining his life as well as others, it's a merciless look on urban reality