Sheffield Theatre’s Daniel Evans production of David Mamet’s 1970s classic American Buffalo opened at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre last month starring Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge. The play examines “the fickle nature of humour among theives as three small time crooks plan one big time heist, a tragedy of errors spins this razor sharp and darkly funny play into a blistering account of divided loyalties, insatiable greed and a coveted Buffalo nickel”.

Damian, John and Tom had signed a portrait drawing I did of them after the opening night’s performance. This sketch is more of a character montage, which they also signed for me this week.

A top drawer cast of Damian Lewis, Tom Sturridge and, making his West End debut, John Goodman, star in the revival of David Mamet’s 1975 breakthrough play American Buffalo, which had its opening last night at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre.

It was last seen in the West End more than 30 years ago when Al Pacino lead the cast at the Duke of York’s Theatre.

At the centre of this modern masterpiece is an old American five-cent nickel, a “buffalo”, which John’s character; Don, the owner of a Chicago junk store where the action is set; has undersold. Convinced he has been ripped off, Don plans to track down the customer  and plans a heist to get it back, with his less than useless ‘associates’ – mouthy no hoper “Teach” (Damian) and nervy young gopher Bob (Tom).

The Telegraph’s Dominic Cavendish had a nice line in his review, “an expletive-laden law and music unto itself, the loose-change of inarticulate conversation spun into glinting gems of urban poetry – the true, harsh sound of American capitalism”.

The Guardian gave it four stars, with Michael Billington saying, “Daniel Evans’ production is meticulous in its psychological and physical detail and there are fine performances from Damian Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge”.

I managed to get all three to sign my drawing after the first preview performance a couple of weeks ago. Tom has now shaven his head, but I couldn’t find my eraser to do the ‘shave’ on the the sketch, so I’ll just have to draw another one.