Edmond: Mamet and the Hintonburg Theatre take on New York in the Carleton Tavern
Photo. Courtesy Chamber Theatre Hintonburg.
Chambre Theatre Hintonburg is back at its favorite venue, the Carleton Tavern on Parkdale Ave, performing on 10 square feet of space amid noisy tavern patrons and theatre aficionados. The mixed crowd is a great atmosphere for certain kinds of theatre and this time, they have chosen a relatively unknown play by David Mamet that suits the tavern site perfectly.
Edmond is about the descent of a man into hell, his own private hell, represented by a violent, and terrifying New York city. Edmond is the first play that Mamet ever located in New York but he certainly has captured the essence of that city bathed in fear, as it was in the 1980’s, the pre Giuliani era before the arrival of that tough mayor (1994) who cracked down on crime.