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True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
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Author: David Mamet Publisher: Vintage Format: Softcover # of Pages: 127 Pub. Date: 1999 ISBN-10: 0679772642 ISBN-13: 9780679772644
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About the Book:
Provides a devil's advocate's point of view of the whole issue of theatre training for actors.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, and teacher gives us a blunt, irreverent, unsparingly honest guide to acting that overturns conventional truths and tells aspiring actors what they really need to know.
David Mamet leaves no acting tenet untouched: How to judge the role, approach the part, work with the playwright. How to concentrate and think about the scene. How to avoid becoming the Paint-by-Numbers Mechanical Actor, the "How'm I Doing?" Ham Actor, the over-the-top "Hollywood Huff" Actor. The right way to undertake auditions and rehearsals. The proper approach to agents, to individual jobs, and to the business in general. The question of talent.
Mamet is unmistakably clear about why he thinks actors should not be taken in by such highly touted notions as "the arc" of the character or the play, "substitution," "sense-memory," the Method itself — in fact, by most of what is being taught in acting schools and workshops across the country today.
True and False slaughters some of the profession's most sacred cows. It is bold, witty, and likely to be as controversial as the author himself.
What people say:
"True and False is vigorously aggressive and laddishly unsubtle. It sets its sights on what Mamet dislikes and despises — theatre academics, drama teachers, pretentious directors - and then blazes away." — The Independent
About the Author:
David Mamet is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including the Oscar-nominated The Verdict. His more than twenty plays include the Pulitzer Prizewinning Glengarry Glen Ross. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University,s and Goddard College, and he lectures at the Atlantic Theater Company, of which he is a founding member. He lives in Santa Monica, California. |
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