keep your pantheon and school
Opening Night: September 9, 2009
Closing: November 1, 2009
Theater: Atlantic Theater Co.
Linda Gross Theater
Founder David Mamet returns to Atlantic with his new comedy that made its world premiere at Center Theatre Group, directed by Atlantic Artistic Director Neil Pepe. Keep Your Pantheon is a rousing farce that follows the fortunes and misfortunes of an acting troupe in ancient Rome. An impoverished acting company on the edge of eviction is offered a lucrative engagement. But through a series of riotous mishaps, the troupe finds its problems have actually multiplied, and that they are about to learn a new meaning for the term "dying on stage."
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October 1, 2009
As befits a work of its title, “School” — the shorter and stronger portion of the Atlantic Theater Company’s “Two Unrelated Plays by David Mamet” — offers a textbook example of the style that made its author famous. Featuring characters identified only as A and B, as if they were points on a diagram, this merry little sketch moves with the show-off alacrity of a calculus prodigy whizzing through equations at the blackboard.
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