Oleanna Lesson Plan

David Mamet was born in 1947 in Chicago. He began writing plays while attending Goddard College in Vermont, founding his own theater company in the 1970s. Even in these early days, he was a prolific playwright, often conjuring scenes in which interpersonal relationships were displayed and dissected for the audience to see. Duck Variations, for instance, produced in 1972, portrays only a park bench with two elderly men, whose conversation spirals into topics ranging from ducks in the park to mortality. His other works from this period include Sexual Perversity in Chicago from 1974 and American Buffalo from 1975, both of which were eventually made into films (Sexual Perversity in Chicago ...