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	American Buffalo
		This ugly fable of American free enterprise at the bottom of the food chain examines the mutual treachery of three bungling losers whose planning of a petty burglary ultimately destroys their tenuous mutual trust.
		But however it's done, the play looms as a ground-breaking forerunner to the macho-absurdist genre that reached its movie pinnacle two years ago with "Pulp Fiction." An axiom of the genre maintains that in the land of opportunity, business and friendship are lethally incompatible.
		A harsh fable about American free enterprise is shrunk into the tortured domestic drama of an odd couple -- one of them pathetically weak but caring, the other a selfish, paranoid destroyer -- and how that couple betrays their orphan son.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/american_buffalo.html (861 words)

	AllRefer.com - Buffalo, city, United States, United States (U.S. Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Buffalo is a diversified manufacturing and financial center, with a large health-care industry.
		Buffalo's educational institutions include the State Univ. of New York (the city's largest employer), with campuses at Buffalo and suburban Amherst; Canisius College; and D'Youville College.
		Buffalo has a music hall and a philharmonic orchestra and a noted park system created by F. Olmsted.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Buffalo-1.html (474 words)

	Welcome to the Jobsite Theater
		American Buffalo plays February 12 through 29 in the Shimberg Playhouse at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, where Jobsite is resident theater company.
		The Observer says "This play is a parable about the US - not in the journalistic way...but quietly, stealthily, with all the rich interior organization of a true work of art" American Buffalo, also Mamet's Broadway debut, was honored with a New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play in 1977.
		American Buffalo is directed by Jason Vaughan Evans, who directed the critically acclaimed Jobsite production of True West, which was cited by the Weekly Planet as a Top 10 play of 2000.
	www.jobsitetheater.org /buffalo.htm (506 words)

	american buffalo
		American Buffalo itself may be ruthless -- an unblinking study of trust among bottom dogs -- but graceless it isn't.
		The play was David Mamet's Broadway debut, introducing many audiences to a new species of rhetoric.
		At times, American Buffalo seems like a punk rewrite of Waiting for Godot, and the staginess of the material shows despite Corrente's sporadic attempts to "open it out" -- putting Donny and Teach on the sidewalk, mostly, as if they were dogs needing to pee.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/buffalo.html (516 words)

	American Buffalo needs to smooth rough edges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		American Buffalo is not a play for the faint of heart.
		He enters the play screaming and yelling, maintaining that pace throughout the play, notably in the gripping final scene where he destroys the junk-shop and nearly beats Bob to death.
		Having seen Yu in other plays where he gave merely good performances, it was gratifying to see him turn in a great one.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V112/N7/buffalo.07a.html (470 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: American Buffalo \| Deseret Morning News Web edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		"American Buffalo," a new film based on Mamet's acclaimed 1975 play, is cut from the same cloth.
		Mamet, who adapted "American Buffalo" for the screen, wrote the play early on in his career, but it still smacks of the contempt for the business world that typifies much of his work.
		"American Buffalo" is rated R for continual profanity, some violence, vulgarity and a couple of racial epithets.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,65,00.html (526 words)

	miaminewtimes.com \| Culture \| Stage \| As Doomed as the American Buffalo \| 2005-09-22 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		American Buffalo, the 1975 play that made David Mamet a star and might well remain the American playwright's best work, is a simple tale of a heist gone wrong.
		But American Buffalo is also an exercise in acting, and at least one cast member, the promising Nick Velkov, is definitely worth watching.
		This is not the place to bemoan the fact that the aggressive scatology and staccato expletives of American Buffalo are not as shocking as they were 30 years ago when the play was new.
	www.miaminewtimes.com /issues/2005-09-22/culture/stage.html?src=default_rss (768 words)

	London theatre play American Buffalo on stage in London's West End Donmar Warehouse theatre - ticket buying and theater ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Mamet has always insisted that the play is a "classical tragedy" about the way that Don betrays Bobby by allowing Teach to beat up "this young fellow whom he loves"...
		The play goes wrong only when Teach is turned into a virtuosic star-turn: a trap that Neil Pepe's production and William H Macy's performance intelligently avoid.
		Loyalty, criminal morality, betrayal and honour among thieves are all involved, though not that dramatically: the play wavers, wanders and detours too long before the action-line emerges.
	www.albemarle-london.com /americanb.html (1143 words)

	Aisle Say (Boston): American Buffalo
		None of the characters in "American Buffalo" seems to have a family to serve as the nucleus of an "us", and the ad hoc loyalties they form through rituals of eating or poker-playing are subject to emendation without prior notice.
		Ken Baltin has the weight to carry a play: his big, bland face has a natural gravitas, his slow careful speech the air of a man who listens and absorbs, who has accumulated experience and is not incapable of learning from it.
		Although "American Buffalo" sometimes feels stretched a bit thin before its inevitable denouement, and might have been an even better play if confined to one act, the last ten minutes of this script must rank among the most painful and powerful moments in the modern theatre.
	www.stagepage.info /reviews/buffalo.html (1485 words)

	American Buffalo : Joseph Bowen : Theatre - Centerstage Chicago
		This American Buffalo, co-directed by ATC Artistic Director Brian Russell and the original "Teach", Mike Nussbaum, is a production that as you watch it, you can just feel the history in the room.
		Set in a resale/junk shop, the play begins as Donny (John Mohrlein) and his surrogate son Bobby (Andrew Micheli) discuss an upcoming robbery of one of their neighbors, a yuppie who bought a buffalo nickel off Donny for ninety dollars.
		American Buffalo is ultimately a play about loneliness, deception and self-denial.
	centerstage.net /theatre/articles/amerbuffalo.html (475 words)

	American Buffalo Preview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		David Mamet's 'American Buffalo' is populated by modern-day pirates
		"American Buffalo" was Mamet's first claim to fame in 1976 as a great writer of both strong prose and strong language.
		Don (played by Randal Whalen) is the shop owner and dim- witted fence who's mentoring Bobby (Duwayne Mills), the young junkie who feels a sense of obligation to Don.
	www.midwesterntheater.org /press/buffalo_preview.html (809 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: American Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		America may well be founded on the crime of dispossession and the genocide of the Indians, but a buffalo's head on a coin in a play hardly suggests any of this and is certainly incapable of presenting the rights and wrongs of the case.
		In the play TEACH defines 'free enterprise' as: "The freedom of the individual to embark on any course that he sees fit." In dialogue like this Mamet is apparently hoping to link the amoral self-interest of his characters to the principles of the American Revolution.
		This play is a failure, but Mamet was able to return more successfully to these themes in "Glengarry Glen Ross." where the greater eloquence of his characters, dishonest land salesmen, allowed him to express more coherently the amorality of American business imperatives.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0613291867 (995 words)

	American Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		And Mamet's screenplay retains all of the play's choicest hard-boiled, half-baked utterances.
		The real show lies in the contrapuntal play of rampaging Teach and deadpan Don as they compose their chilling, if oft-buffoonish, ode to free enterprise as a license to steal.
		American Buffalo, with a plot that's minimal yet complex and not a little murky, is in some ways an odd immigrant to the story-driven world of movies.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/movies/reviews/09-12-96/BFF/AMERICAN_BUFFALO.html (663 words)

	American Buffalo - David Mamet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Don has sold a Buffalo head nickel to a customer, having no idea himself what the coin was worth, but intuiting the customer's interest and driving up the price.
		In American Buffalo, too, the line between business and chicanery comes into play, but a more fundamental view of the human condition lies beneath that subject matter.
		The trap in staging a play like American Buffalo is to miss the subtleties, to rely on a straightforward delivery of dialogue as if that alone would draw out the meanings.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater4/AmericanBuffalo.htm (743 words)

	AMERICAN BUFFALO - play - Al Pacino's Loft
		A classic tragedy, American Buffalo is the story of three men struggling in the pursuit of their distorted vision of the American Dream.
		By turns touching and cynical, poignant and violent, American Buffalo is a piercing story of how people can be corrupted into betraying their ideals and those they love.
		A film, American Buffalo, was made of the play in 1996 starring
	velvet_peach.tripod.com /fzpacamericanbuffalo.html (245 words)

	Document Listing
		Corrente was filming an American theater classic, David Mamet's "American Buffalo," in Pawtucket for $3 million with Dustin Hoffman (as Teach) and Dennis Franz (as Donny).
		The part of Bobby is played by the 15-year-old Sean Nelson, who won praise last year in "Fresh," a film of urban violence.
		The play, first staged in 1975, is a study of subtle interactions among the volatile Teach, the long-suffering shopkeeper, Donny, and his hero-worshiping helper, Bobby.
	www.eccentrix.com /members/billrod/amerbuff.htm (1777 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| American Buffalo
		The shock effect is gone, and now the play seems almost like a poem, built on the drumming rhythm of people talking to hear themselves talk.
		The three-character play is set inside a secondhand shop, and there it stays for the film version, with the exception of a few exteriors shot in the interesting squalor of urban Rhode Island (director Michael Corrente made his debut in the Providence-based Federal Hill).
		American Buffalo (R; 88 min.), directed by Michael Corrente, written by David Mamet, photographed by Richard Crudo and starring Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz and Sean Nelson.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/09.12.96/buffalo-9637.html (529 words)

	Imprint: Arts - Honour Among Thieves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In American Buffalo, Mamet attempts to make a connection between the realm of criminal activity, which is outside the normal sphere of morality that we all adhere to, and the trust that most of us depend on to function in our daily lives.
		The play takes place over one day and centres around three characters: Don, owner of a junk shop (the play's setting), Bobby a rather hapless young junkie and Teach, "the angry, loud-mouthed fuck-up." Don is planning the robbery of a coin collector -- a job Bobby is supposed to be in on.
		There is, at the heart of American Buffalo, a dedication to examining modern morality - an examination of honesty and friendship in the face of violence and suspicion.
	imprint.uwaterloo.ca /issues/061695/Arts/a-01.html (626 words)

	The Arion Press Catalogue:"American Buffalo" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		American Buffalo by David Mamet, with five wood engravings by Michael McCurdy, 1992.
		American Buffalo is the first dramatic work produced by the Press, and it is the first major work of one of our best contemporary playwrights.
		For this edition Mamet has written a new foreword, which divulges the real-life origins of the play, a long-running poker game in a junk shop in Chicago, where the author got the nickname "Teach", for having taught at a state penitentiary where some of his fellow players had done time.
	www.arionpress.com /catalog/037.htm (227 words)

	American Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		American Buffalo is the story of two nickel-and-dime street hustlers, Donnie (Franz) and "Teach" (Hoffman), who spend as much time trying to hustle one another as they do their customers.
		American Buffalo hearkens back in many ways to the theater of the absurd.
		American Buffalo is artfully crafted, well timed and loaded with dynamite.
	www.rambles.net /am_buffalo.html (514 words)

	American Buffalo Review
		I've seen Mamet plays where the actors were embarrassed to have his words in their mouths, spitting them out like a bad taste.
		The American buffalo is an archetypal symbol of profit pursued to extinction.
		The conflicts in the play -- friendship and business, loyalty and greed -- are easily scaled up to read as a parable of American business practice.
	www.sfu.ca /~brocking/writing/buffalo.html (685 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: American Buffalo (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The director of American Buffalo might as well have had the actors perform the movie on a stage and filmed it like he would a play; the movie felt like a play.
		Mamet is merely the decadent mouthpiece of bourgeois society and American Buffalo, like most of his films, offer no real societal critique and are intelligent only in the way a first year philosophy student in love with Nietzsche is intelligent.
		"American Buffalo" is a rare example of the theater play adapted from stage to the big silver screen.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000053VAS?v=glance (1362 words)

	American Buffalo plays well on the screen
		David Mamet's American Buffalo is a rarity in mainstream movies with top-rate talent.
		American Buffalo's dialogue is spellbinding, as is to be expected from a movie based on a David Mamet play.
		In American Buffalo the problem is acute, given the minimal cast, a single setting, and no action.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V116/N45/buffalo.45a.html (676 words)

	Review: American Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		American Buffalo starts out torturously slowly, with lots of cryptic dialogue about not confusing business with pleasure, a "broken toaster", and some kind of "job" that a couple of down-on-their-luck guys are preparing to pull.
		Don and Teach are planning to rob some rich guy's coin collection (the title, American Buffalo, refers to the pre-Jefferson nickel), but they don't have a plan or a clear sense of what they're doing.
		Mamet's play may be twenty years old, but the themes of loyalty, betrayal, and ruthlessness are as applicable to the current social and economic environment as they were in the '70s.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/amer_buffalo.html (794 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - American Buffalo
		"American Buffalo" is a play about mess --- about wreckage, both emotional and physical --- and the set offers an initial clue that Lindsay Posner's staging as a whole will be too reined-in.
		This play is among the more frequently produced American works in London, and one can see why inasmuch as it lets three keen British actors strut their lowlife American stuff.
		But the play needs more than a fearless embrace of expletives if its ostensibly simple story of a heist gone awry is to widen in meaning.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117342323?categoryid=33&cs=1 (494 words)

	Learn more about David Mamet in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		David Alan Mamet (November 30, 1947 -) is an American playwright, screenwriter, director and poet born in Chicago, Illinois.
		Educated at Goddard College and a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company Mamet first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo.
		His work is characterized by playful plots overturning conventions and typically features strong male characters and their tough posturings, rhythmically profane dialogue, and charged verbal confrontations.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /d/da/david_mamet.html (401 words)

	American Buffalo, a CurtainUp review
		The play that put the prolific David Mamet on the map is indeed a fitting conclusion to the season dedicated to him by the company he helped to found.
		The play's dramatic personae consists of a trio of inept hustlers hooked on the belief that action and enterprise hold the key to their getting a share of the American pie.
		Their latest A & E mission is triggered by a rare Buffalo nickel that found its way into the junk shop owned by Don (Philip Baker Hall), the eldest member of the trio and the only one who could be said to have an identifiable occupation.
	www.curtainup.com /americanbuffalo.html (834 words)

	Guthrie Theater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		As a result, Mamet's plays are not as deep and dark as Pinter's; at the same time they ring truer for a less sophisticated audience.
		The characters in Mamet's plays express their muddled ideas in uncompleted sentences and sputtered obscenities, decorate their language with ornate malapropisms, pronounce their platitudes with the triumph of fresh discovery.
		His plays, though rooted in reality, are fables, whose uniqueness lies in their distinctive musica terse, streamlined orchestration of thought, language, and character which draws viewers in and makes them work for meaning.
	www.guthrietheater.org /act_III/studyguide/section_element.cfm?id_studyguide=26834371&id_study_category=2 (2888 words)

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