Mametogram, or how to write like David Mamet.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Play)

CHICAGO: The old neighborhood. Almost 30 years after the Goodman Theatre's 1977 premiere of A Life in the Theatre. JOHN reads a passage from Mamet's one-act No One Will Be Immune. CAROL, a student who is inquiring about the Goodman's "David Mamet Write-Alike Contest," is seated across the desk.

JOHN: ... that's his job, don't you know ...

CAROL: What is?

JOHN: To provoke you.

CAROL: To provoke? A play about some dope bleeding on a ham. Mamet wrote this to provoke me?

JOHN: That's right.... Other people, too.

CAROL: Seven weeks of a dozen Mamet ...

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