All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situation. If you’re cheating on your wife the repression of that puts things out of balance; or if you’re someone you think you’re not, and you think you should be further ahead in your job, that neurotic vision takes over your life and you’re plagued by it until you’re cleansed. At the end of a play the lie is revealed. The better the play the more surprising and inevitable the lie is. Aristotle told us this

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Godzilla a commentary on the movie business; and The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture (2011) a commentary on cultural and political issues. 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. : /ˈmæmɨt/; born November 30 1947) is an American playwright essayist screenwriter and film director.