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David Mamet’s “Speed-the-Plow” will have its Southern California premiere next season at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, running June 8 to July 15 on the Mainstage. The three-character play originated at New York’s Lincoln Center and ran on Broadway last year with Joe Mantegna and Ron Silver as a couple of sleazy movie producers and Madonna in her stage debut as an office temp. “Since it’s set in Hollywood, I’m a little surprised that we’re the first theater on the West Coast to get the play,” South Coast artistic director Martin Benson said Thursday. “If I were running a theater in Los Angeles, I would have been all over it. It’s delicious, delightful and bitchy--everything that makes good, trenchant theater.”