Keep Your Pantheon
(and School)
TWO UNRELATED PLAYS
OTHER BOOKS BY DAVID MAMET
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Keep Your Pantheon
(and School)
TWO UNRELATED PLAYS
David Mamet
THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP
NEW YORK
2012
Keep Your Pantheon (and School): Two Unrelated Plays is copyright © 2012 by David Mamet
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Mamet, David.
Keep your pantheon (and School) : two unrelated plays / David Mamet.
—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN 978-1-55936-724-0
I. Mamet, David. School. II. Title. III. Title: School.
PS3563.A4345K444 2011
812’.54—dc23 2011040062
Book design and composition by Lisa Govan
Cover illustration by David Mamet
Cover design by Lisa Govan
First Edition, April 2012
Contents
SCHOOL
This play is dedicated to Jack Wallace
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Keep Your Pantheon premiered in May 2008 at the Center Theatre Group (Michael Ritchie, Artistic Director; Charles Dillingham, Managing Director) in Los Angeles. It was performed as a double bill with The Duck Variations. It was directed by Neil Pepe. Set design was by Takeshi Kata, costume design was by Ilona Somogyi, lighting design was by Christopher Akerlind and sound design was by Cricket S. Myers. The production stage manager was David S. Franklin and the stage manager was Elizabeth Atkinson. The cast was as follows:
| HERALD | Vincent Guastaferro |
| STRABO | Ed O’Neill |
| PELARGON | David Paymer |
| PHILIUS | Michael Cassidy |
| RAMUS | Jack Wallace |
| QUINTUS MAGNUS | Steven Goldstein |
| TITUS | J. J. Johnston |
| LUPUS ALBUS | Dominic Hoffman |
| MESSENGER | Rod McLachlan |
| ENSEMBLE | Jeffrey Addiss, Rod McLachlan,Jonathan Rossetti |
Keep Your Pantheon was produced in September 2009 at Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) in New York City. It was performed as a double bill with School. It was directed by Neil Pepe. Set design was by Takeshi Kata, costume design was by Ilona Somogyi and lighting design was by Christopher Akerlind. The production stage manager was Gregory T. Livoti. The cast was as follows:
| HERALD | Steven Hawley |
| STRABO | Brian Murray |
| PELARGON | John Pankow |
| PHILIUS | Michael Cassidy |
| RAMUS | Jack Wallace |
| QUINTUS MAGNUS | Todd Weeks |
| TITUS | J. J. Johnston |
| LUPUS ALBUS | Jordan Lage |
| MESSENGER | Rod McLachlan |
| ENSEMBLE | Jeffrey Addiss, Rod McLachlan,Jonathan Rossetti |
CHARACTERS
HERALD
STRABO: An actor
PELARGON: An actor
PHILIUS: Strabo’s young apprentice
RAMUS: An old drunk
QUINTUS MAGNUS: The landlord
MESSENGER
MAN
AUDIENCE
TITUS: A jailor
LUPUS ALBUS: The White Wolf of Phrygia, a general
CENTURIONS
ARMORERS
GUARDS
PRIEST
SETTING
Ancient