In this gripping short play; David Mamet combines mercurial intelligence with genuinely Hitchcockian menace. The Cryptogram is a journey back into childhood and the moment of its vanishingmdash;the moment when the sheltering world is suddenly revealed as a place full of dangers. On a night in 1959 a boy is waiting to go on a camping trip with his father. His mother wants him to go to sleep. A family friend is trying to entertain themmdash;or perhaps distract them. Because in the dark corners of this domestic scene; there are rustlings that none of the players want to hear. And out of things as innocuous as a shattered teapot and a ripped blanket; Mamet re-creates a child terrifying discovery that the grownups are speaking in code; and that that code may never be breakable.
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