Welcome to Zinctown, Arizona. Population: dwindling. Altitude: 6,400 feet. Zinc: all gone.
Brad has a three-day option to buy a ghost town perched on a mountain gorge and connected to civilisation by a bridge that’s one gust of wind from catastrophe. His plan: host a pharmaceutical company’s convention of dentists, impress them with cowboys, campfires, the Arrow of Fellowship and the Bonfire of Woe, and somehow not get anyone killed.
He has not planned for a buffalo with altitude sickness, an old prospector with a mule carrying two hundred pounds of explosives, a U.S. Marshal who can’t improvise, a young dentist from Brooklyn who believes cucumbers are an anaesthetic, a pornographic blowfish, and a hundred trillion dollars of gold hidden in the one place nobody thought to look.
David Mamet sets his sights on pharmaceutical conventions, cowboy mythology, the American dream, and dentistry — and misses none of them.
David Mamet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director, is one of America’s most distinctive and influential writers. His films include House of Games (1987), Homicide (1991) and Spartan (2004). Here for his screenplay Russian Poland, published by Sticking Place Books.
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