Mamet Decides to Debut New Play THE ANARCHIST in London's West End

David Mamet will debut his latest play, THE ANARCHIST, in London's West End.

According to the Daily Mail, "The drama was described by producer Matthew Byam Shaw as a ‘fascinating sword-fight of a play' about two women - the governor of a prison and a lifer trying to convince her that, after years behind bars, she's ready for parole. However, gradually, we're made aware that the prisoner has been involved in a violent political organisation ‘loosely based on a Baader-Meinhof or Weather Underground-type anarchist group', Byam Shaw said - although he stressed that the play was not based on any particular real-life revolutionary. The award-winning Rupert Goold will direct it in the West End in the autumn."

David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, who has earned Tony nominations for Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) and Speed-the-Plow (1988). As a screenwriter, he received Oscar nominations for The Verdict (1982) and Wag the Dog (1997). Mamet's books include The Old Religion (1997), a novel about the lynching of Leo Frank; Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (2004), a Torah commentary, with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner; The Wicked Son (2006), a study of Jewish self-hatred and antisemitism; and Bambi vs. Godzilla, a commentary on the movie business.