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The cryptogram / David Mamet.
- Title
- The cryptogram / David Mamet.
- Author
- Mamet, David
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3563.A4345 C79 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 100 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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 danger. 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's terrifying discovery that the grownups are speaking in code, and that that code may never be breakable.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Drama
- Bildungsromans
- Théâtre.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0679746536 :
- LCCN
- ^^^94046518^
- OCLC
- 31738499
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library