Yet the current production by his Atlantic Theatre Company, with its quiet, deliberate direction and understated performances, only heightens the bitter themes for which Mr Mamet's distinctive, biting dialogue was meant.
"Take direction, stay quiet, stay together, don't move".
And despite Karel Reisz's tactful direction and quiet, emotionally full performances from Stephen Brennan, Brid Brennan and (as the patient) Penelope Wilton, "A Kind of Alaska" felt like a writing exercise, a well-done arrangement of the kind of tale that has interested other writers and directors.
Zayn Malik has kept rather quiet since exiting One Direction last month, especially on Twitter.
Day and colleagues (1993) have demonstrated that deterioration of balance control in the elderly primarily occurs in the ML direction during quiet stance [ 46].
After six to seven weeks of balance training the children had positive results in displacement in forward and backward direction in quiet stance, in leaning to all directions in dynamic stance, and in the non-paretic leg step length (limited evidence).
Main Outcome Measures: By means of a dual-plate force platform, the velocity of center of pressure (COP) fluctuations were analyzed in the anteroposterior and lateral sway directions during quiet standing with eyes open, eyes closed, and while performing a secondary attention-demanding arithmetic task.
The culture very much is that if you want to talk, you go 10 or 20 feet in some direction to a quiet area.
On a residential street, where Soviet housing blocks tower in every direction, it is quiet enough to hear the sound of individual leaves brushing against branches.
