Mamet Plays: 1

Duck Variations: "A brilliant little play...about two old men sitting on a park bench discussing ducks" (Guardian).

Sexual Perversity in Chicago revolves around bar-room banter and sexual exploits in Mamet's home town, "sweet sad understanding and utterly believable" (Chicago Daily News).

Squirrels is a sequence of philosophising between a younger writer, an older writer and a cleaning lady which "memorably captures the agony of the creative process" (Daily Telegraph).

American Buffalo, one of Mamet's most famous plays, is set in a junk shop where three small-time crooks plot to carry out the midnight robbery of a coin collection. In the hours leading up to the heist, friendship becomes the victim in a conflict between loyalty and business.

The Water Engine is "a propulsive, kaleidoscopic nightmare".

Mr Happiness is a short ironic monologue by a Radio DJ commenting on the letters from his listeners.