The FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training's 2014-15 season opens with Pulitzer Prize winning and Tony Award nominated American playwright David Mamet's riveting drama THE WATER ENGINE. Originally written as a radio drama for NPR, the play made its stage debut in 1977 and received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding New Play.
Directed by Greg Leaming, the director of the Conservatory, and performed by an ensemble of eight second-year Conservatory students, this thrilling play will have one "Pay What You Can Performance" preview on Tuesday, November 4 at 7:30pm and open on Wednesday, November 5 at 8pm, running through Sunday, November 23. The Conservatory especially encourages new audience members to attend the preview "Pay What You Can Performance" of THE WATER ENGINE and pay whatever they can afford for their tickets. These special tickets are only available on the day of the performance. A true American theatre icon, Mamet's celebrated pieces include Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, and American Buffalo. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross. Acclaimed for his edgy writing style, Mamet abandons traditional forms of stage dialogue and utilizes gritty, realistic street-talk. Referred to as "Mamet speak," his writing is filled with intentional fragments, run-on sentences, and mis-spoken phrases, giving his characters a more realistic pattern of speech.Videos