Speed-the-Plow

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You do have to wait for it, but there is a moment when the American Conservatory Theater's production of David Mamet's masterful Speed-the-Plow, now at the American Conservatory Theatre, catapults itself from being a merely notable production into one of sheer brilliance. But even until then, director Loretta Greco has helped steer an outstanding three-person cast through a rigorous and challenging play about two Hollywood pals trying to make a movie, and the woman who comes between them.

It's not easy tackling the challenge of a Mamet script. Sentences cut off, with characters interrupting one another mid-sentence with the grace of best friends and old married couples. Understandably, this[...]