The Anarchist
By David Mamet
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David Mamet is one of the foremost American playwrights. He has won a Pulitzer prize and received Tony nominations for his plays, Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. His screenwriting credits include The Verdict and The Untouchables.
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The Anarchist - David Mamet
BOOKS BY DAVID MAMET AVAILABLE FBOM TCG
The Anarchist
Keep Your Pantheon (and School)
Race
A PLAY BY DAVID MAMET
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUPNEW YORK2012
The Anarchist is copyright © 2012 by David Mamet
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ISBN: 978-1-55936-428-7
Book design and composition by Lisa Govan Cover art and design by aka
First Edition, December 2012
This play is dedicated to Patti and Debra
Contents
The Anarchist
Chaque génération doit dans une relative opacité
découvrir sa mission, la remplir ou trahir.
— Frantz Fanon
Les damnés de la terre
PRODUCTION HISTORY
The Anarchist premiered on Broadway on December 2, 2012, at the John Golden Theatre (Producers: Jeffrey Richards; Jerry Frankel; Howard and Janet Kagan; Catherine Schreiber; Jam Theatricals; Luigi and Rose Caiola; Gutterman Chernoff MXKC; Kit Seidel; Broadway Across America; Amy and Phil Mickelson; James Fuld, Jr.; Carlos Arana/Bard Theatricals; Will Trice). The production was directed by David Mamet, with scenic and costume design by Patrizia Von Brandenstein, lighting design by Jeff Croiter and sound design by Peter Fitzgerald; the production stage manager was William Joseph Barnes. The cast was:
CHARACTERS
Cathy and Ann, two women
SCENE
An office
Ann, seated at a desk. A telephone is on the desk. An intercom sits on a conference table. Also on the desk are several files, a loosely bound manuscript and several books. A briefcase sits on the floor. Cathy is standing.
ANN: Will you sit down? How are you?
CATHY: No, I think I’m well. Thank you for asking.
ANN: What have you been doing?
CATHY: I’ve been studying. As usual.
ANN: And what have you learned?
CATHY: In the larger sense . . .
ANN: . . . all right.
CATHY: I hope that I’ve learned to be reasonable. At least I have studied it. Most importantly.
ANN: Most importantly.
CATHY: Yes.
ANN: Reason more than patience?
CATHY: One might think the pressing study would be patience. But patience, of course, implies an end.
ANN: Patience implies an end.
CATHY: Well, yes.
ANN: As?
CATHY: One may be patient only for something.
ANN: Such as?
CATHY: A deferred desire, or the cessation of discomfort . . .
ANN: Revenge?
CATHY: Well, that would fall within the rubric of desire deferred.
ANN: And Reason teaches?
CATHY: Reason would teach the abandonment of the unfulfillable wish; and, so, of the need for patience. It therefore may be said to be the higher study.
(Cathy gestures back, toward upstage. Pause.)
Lovely girl.
ANN: Yes?
CATHY: In the anteroom. (Pause) I find when conversation stalls it never indicates a want of subject—one may always talk about the weather—but rather some subject’s repression. What