"American Buffalo" is highly entertaining. But it could range deeper into the playwright's soul.
NEW YORK — David Mamet — the confounding, outspoken playwright that artistic progressives are dying to cancel — wrote “American Buffalo” in 1975 when he was just 27 years old.
When he wrote this three-hander in a crumby hotel, Mamet had just returned to his hometown of Chicago after hanging around an East Coast college. By his own admission, he was lacking friends, skills and money.
That’s all cool to watch play out on Scott Pask’s deliciously cluttered setting, especially as Pepe knows when to keep audiences in the dark. But what we don’t really see here is the battle for Bobby’s soul, the war of potential father figures influencing an unmoored kid, maybe a metaphor for American or whatever, but most clearly an encapsulation of the playwright himself.
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