Speed-the-Plow
Speed-the-Plow is a play by American playwright, film director, screenwriter and author David Mamet (born 1947) [1].
Not to be confused with Speed the Plough by H.V. Morton (1798).
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The original text
A satirical dissection of the American movie business, the play premiéred on Broadway at the Royale Theatre in a production by the Lincoln Center Theater, opening on May 3, 1988 and closing on Dec 31, 1988 after 279 performances.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1990: Presented under the title Speed the Plow Upstairs at the Market in January, directed by Malcolm Purkey with Andrew Buckland, Dawid Minnaar and Megan Kruskal.
Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed-the-Plow
Ruphin Coudyzer. 2023. Annotated list of his photographs of Market Theatre productions. (Provided by Coudyzer)
Pat Schwartz 1988. The Best of Company: The Story of Johannesburg's Market Theatre. Johannesburg: Ad Donker.
Percy Tucker. 1997. Just the Ticket. My 50 Years in Show Business. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press: p. 486.
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