Classical Unities

"That's the revelation of twentieth-century drama. You can apply the Aristotelian unities to a microcosm, to a very, very small human interchange. You can take it apart. It didn't have to be about conquering France. It can be about who did or did not turn on the gas on the stove."

~ David Mamet, discussing the influences of Beckett and Pinter on his dramatic technique