https://praxistheatre.com/2007/02/a-cheap-trick-of-unhappy-people/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:16:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 https://praxistheatre.com/2007/02/a-cheap-trick-of-unhappy-people/comment-page-1/#comment-90 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:55:00 +0000 https://praxistheatre.com/?p=34#comment-90 I met Mamet once. I was working as a theatre student at a charity auction that was combined with Robert Brustein’s retirement party. I had to walk around with a really big hat that had one of the auction prizes on top. I found it too embarassing and got fairly wasted through the course of the evening, when I spotted Mamet. I cornered him briefly with talk about poker which i had heard he enjoyed. One of my teachers spotted wasted mike babbling to Mamet with a huge paper mache hat on and came in and broke it up. I didn’t even get to the part about why did he start a theatre school if he thought theatre school was a waste of time.

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