– opening tonight on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre – retains a vitality that eluded some recent equally starry revivals of works by Mamet’s bad-boy contemporaries .was instantly notorious for Mamet’s then-novel rapid-fire cadences and casually strewn vulgarities, and it still packs plenty of both.
The setting is a Chicago junk shop – wonderfully designed by Scott Pask, who turns Circle in the Square’s famous thrust stage into an overstuffed graveyard of life’s throwaways – owned and operated by Donny , an aging tough guy whose past is revealed mostly in the running crouch he assumes whenever the lights of a cop car flash outside his store windows.
Enter Teach. And what an entrance: Rockwell storms into the shop boiling mad over some silly slight he’s convincedthat the gay women might have directed toward him. Long before Tarantino was obsessing over Royales with Cheese, Mamet had Teach stewing over a piece of toast that one of the women seemed to begrudge him.
McAvoy can do it all.
Dustin Hoffman and Denis Franz did the screen version
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