American Buffalo

by David Mamet

Venue

BF Community Hall
Dates

April 10 & 11 at 7pm
Duration

Approx. 120 Minutes (Incl 15 Min Intermission)

A trio of inept burglars go on a journey full of emotion and ironic humor, delving into the darker side of the American Dream, and the price of friendship.

On the original production of American Buffalo

Critic Frank Rich, in reviewing the 1983 production for The New York Times, called it “one of the best American plays of the last decade.” Rich had previously reviewed the 1981 Off-Broadway production, calling the play “brilliant”, and noting: “The play, though, is the thing. Working with the tiniest imaginable vocabulary – words like nothing, great, and no, as well as those of four letters – Mr. Mamet creates a subterranean world with its own nonliterate comic beat, life-and death struggles, pathos and even affection… In American Buffalo, he has created a deceptively small-scale tragedy that is packed with the power to explode the largest of American myths.”

You have to talk it out. Bad feelings, misunderstandings happen on a job. You can’t get away from ’em, you have to deal with ’em.

Teach

Adult Dinner Theater at its finest

Not only did we try our hand at dinner theater for the first time in 2014 we also tried our most adult show, David Mamet’s classic, American Buffalo. If you know anything about the author, you know that this show was definitely not for kids but it was a great opportunity for our volunteers to really stretch their wings and try something completely different than what had been done before for our Community Theater. This was a show specifically requested by several volunteers to try and we do our best to listen and attempt shows that our people want to attempt when we can, even if it isn’t the easiest show to produce. Honestly, those can be the most fun at the end of the day.