"Speed the Plow" to feature Elvis songs

[sweetest punch]

http://dcist.com/2007/10/25/post_5.php

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The play’s ("Speed The Plow") three acts are punctuated by snippets of early Elvis Costello songs, music that shares with Mamet’s play a bitter verbal brio and a merciless velocity. Like those tunes, Speed the Plow knocks you flat and is over before you know it. How often do you feel that at a play?

http://washingtontimes.com/article/2007 ... ertainment

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"Speed-the-Plow" starts off promisingly — and to the tune of Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up" — with an amiably vampiric friendship between two Hollywood shysters who are Damon Runyonesque in their outsized personalities and the joyful slinging of industry slang.