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Prairie du Chien (1978), The Shawl (1985)
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The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet
Prairie du Chien and The Shawl are short plays which were paired when Gregory Mosher (born 1949), Mamet’s friend and collaborator at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, decided to stage them for his first production on taking up the highly prestigious post of Director at the Lincoln Center in New York in 1985. The Shawl was a new piece, but Prairie du Chien had initially aired several years previously on National Public Radio.