A playwright who “gets to the guts of what it means to be human”, is how the Artistic Director of Washington’s Keegan Theatre, Mark Rhea, describes the uniquely talented David Mamet.
Keegan Theatre are currently presenting Mamet’s American Buffalo at the Town Hall Theatre, having previously staged his best-known work Glengarry Glen Ross here about a decade ago.
American Buffalo opened this Wednesday and runs until this Friday, August 18 at 8pm nightly.
Keegan Theatre and Galway have enjoyed a long relationship – this is their 16th tour to the Town Hall Theatre since first visiting in 1999 with a production of A Streetcar Named Desire.
“We have an incredibly profound connection to Galway, so profound, in fact, that my wife [Susan Marie] and I were married here in 2003,” says Mark. “We had our wedding reception at the Town Hall Theatre, the night before we opened Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf there for the 2003 Ireland tour. So, it’s strong, it is important, and it is a vital piece of our history. We have many, many friends and colleagues in Ireland with whom we’ve grown close over the years of touring. Galway and our relationship with Town Hall is a deeply meaningful artistic and personal relationship for us all.”
So too is Keegan Theatre’s relationship with David Mamet’s work.
Keegan produced Glengarry Glen Ross twice in the US and toured one of those productions to Galway in 2007.
For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.
