Two Unrelated Plays By David Mamet: Keep Your Pantheon and School
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Opened Sep 30, 2009
Closed Nov 1, 2009
Opened Sep 30, 2009
Closed Nov 1, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Founder David Mamet returns to Atlantic with his new comedy that made its world premiere at Center Theatre Group, directed by Atlantic Artistic Director Neil Pepe. Keep Your Pantheon is a rousing farce that follows the fortunes and misfortunes of an acting troupe in ancient Rome. An impoverished acting company on the edge of eviction is offered a lucrative engagement. But through a series of riotous mishaps, the troupe finds its problems have actually multiplied, and that they are about to learn a new meaning for the term "dying on stage."
Mamet's world premiere play School is a brief comic discourse on recycling, poster design and the transmission of information.
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Atlantic Theater Company
336 W 20th St
New York, NY 10011
The Atlantic Theatre Company was founded in 1983 by playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy. Through a series of intensive acting workshops, the Atlantic was born. They continually produce exciting and innovative works such as Freak, Cider [...] Read More
336 W 20th St
New York, NY 10011
The Atlantic Theatre Company was founded in 1983 by playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy. Through a series of intensive acting workshops, the Atlantic was born. They continually produce exciting and innovative works such as Freak, Cider [...] Read More
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RE:Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet: Keep Your Pantheon and School!
Saw these 2 plays in previews Sun., Sept. 20. Sad to say that even with the peerless Brian Murray playing the lead in "Keep Your Pantheon" it was one of the bleakest afternoons I have ever spent in the theater! For the first time--ever, there is nothing good that I can say about this production: writing absolutely pathetic, direction lackluster, acting the performers showed up for the performance, visually I should have shut my eyes from the start. Mamet & my dear Atlantic Theater Company have sunk to an all time low. Pity.
Reviewed by thgoer
on Thursday, Sep 24th, 2009
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Slight is the word that comes to mind repeatedly during David Mamet's School and Keep Your Pantheon, the two short plays that are playing at the Atlantic Theater Company.
The curtain raiser, School, brings to mind Mamet's Speed-the-Plow as two school teachers, 'A' (John Pankow) and 'B' (Rod McLachlan) debate the merits of a student art project that touts the merits of conservationism and at the same time has used copious amounts of paper. The men's banter -- expertly calibrated by director Neil Pepe and performed with comic rat-a-tat intensity by the performers -- spirals to other subjects from the laws of physics to sexual impropriety between students and teachers, but it's difficult to di[...]