No surprise, the new Mamet play, now in Manhattan, is "The Cryptogram."

The Mamet play, he said at the time, was "like coming back to my roots as an actor."

When he told her that the Mamet play was a farce, he said, she was quite happy to hear it.

In a Mamet play, each person is an island desperately trying the impossible task of attaching itself to the mainland.

In that respect, it is treated like a typical Mamet play.

Directed by Lindsay Posner, it is the first Mamet play to be produced at the Almeida.

Quintessential, which delayed this weekend's performance, may still try to do a Mamet play.

And a figure skewered by him winds up sounding as tough and treacherous as someone from a Mamet play.

But this is his first Mamet play.

The Mamet play will now go on in London instead.