Article: How Good Is David Mamet, Anyway?(Arts&Entertainment)

Byline: John Heilpern

The revival of David Mamet's breakthrough 1975 play, American Buffalo (at the Atlantic Theater Company), confirms its still-invigorating, toxic power. In their monosyllabic savage incoherence, Mr. Mamet's lowlifes in the wilderness are his funniest demolition of big business and the American Dream. As the hustler Teach puts it with near-Elizabethan eloquence: "You know what is free enterprise? The freedom of the individual ... To Embark on Any Fucking Course that he sees fit. In order to secure his honest chance to make a profit. Am I so out of line on this? Does this make me a Commie?"

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