The Cryptogram
David Mamet$15.30
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In this gripping short play, David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishing--the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers.
On a night in 1959 a boy is waiting to go on a camping trip with his father. His mother wants him to go to sleep. A family friend is trying to entertain them--or perhaps distract them. Because in the dark corners of this domestic scene, there are rustlings that none of the players want to hear. And out of things as innocuous as a shattered teapot and a ripped blanket, Mamet re-creates a child terrifying discovery that the grownups are speaking in code, and that that code may never be breakable.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/18/1995
ISBN: 9780679746539
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.20w x 0.37d
On a night in 1959 a boy is waiting to go on a camping trip with his father. His mother wants him to go to sleep. A family friend is trying to entertain them--or perhaps distract them. Because in the dark corners of this domestic scene, there are rustlings that none of the players want to hear. And out of things as innocuous as a shattered teapot and a ripped blanket, Mamet re-creates a child terrifying discovery that the grownups are speaking in code, and that that code may never be breakable.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/18/1995
ISBN: 9780679746539
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.20w x 0.37d