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=== Press Blurb ===
=== Press Blurb ===
This is their bio from the [[2012 Out of Bounds]] web site:
This is their bio from their web site:
<blockquote><p>"You know what it takes to improvise a David Mamet play?</p>
<blockquote><p>"Legendary American playwright David Mamet has a certain way with language–rapid fire dialogue, unfinished sentences, meaningful pauses, raucous cursing, jazz symphonic rhythms . . . meanwhile, Confidence Men: Improvised Mamet have a certain way of lifting that style and making it their own. In the realm of improvised theatre. Every show is a wild testosterone-fueled romp of comedy that can turn deadly serious at the drop of a hat. These six acclaimed and dishonorable menschen will sell you a plot of fuck yes in a two-act play made off the cuffs of their three-piece suits. And, yes, there will be a 45-second musical intermission."</p></blockquote>
<p>Balls. Brass Balls. It takes brass balls to improvise a David Mamet play. Listen friend, the six intrepid members of Confidence Men have brass balls in spades and they are not afraid to use them to unfold the seedy underbelly of whatever the audience suggests on the spot. Every show, a new play will be improvised in the style of such great works as ''Glengarry Glen Ross'', ''Speed-the-Plow'', and ''House of Games'', with all the rat-a-tat and grift of its actual predecessors. Featuring a 45-second live musical intermission.</p>
 
<p>Confidence Men features six Austin, Texas-based improvisers who have come together full of love for noted playwright David Mamet. Taking an audience suggestion for where that night's particular story will take place, Confidence Men is then off and running to create a 2-act improvised play infused with the verbal style and story sensibility of Mamet himself: rapid-fire elliptical speech, liberal and creative use of profanity, desperate men trying to fight for one-upmanship in a dog-eat-dog junkyard of a world."</p></blockquote>


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Confidence Men

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Years Active 2010-Present
Cast

Confidence Men is an improv troupe that improvises in the style of David Mamet.

Summary

Show Structure

A typical Confidence Men show is a two-act play. Each act is a monoscene. Each performer plays one character throughout the show. In between act one and act two, there is a 45-second solo musical performance.

Press Blurb

This is their bio from their web site:

"Legendary American playwright David Mamet has a certain way with language–rapid fire dialogue, unfinished sentences, meaningful pauses, raucous cursing, jazz symphonic rhythms . . . meanwhile, Confidence Men: Improvised Mamet have a certain way of lifting that style and making it their own. In the realm of improvised theatre. Every show is a wild testosterone-fueled romp of comedy that can turn deadly serious at the drop of a hat. These six acclaimed and dishonorable menschen will sell you a plot of fuck yes in a two-act play made off the cuffs of their three-piece suits. And, yes, there will be a 45-second musical intermission."

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