True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by Mamet, David

True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679772644)

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True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by Mamet, David

True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

$17.00
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by Mamet, David

True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor

$17.00
Format: Paperback
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One of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting with these words: invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. Acting schools, "interpretation," "sense memory," "The Method"--David Mamet takes a jackhammer to the idols of contemporary acting, while revealing the true heroism and nobility of the craft. He shows actors how to undertake auditions and rehearsals, deal with agents and directors, engage audiences, and stay faithful to the script, while rejecting the temptations that seduce so many of their colleagues. Bracing in its clarity, exhilarating in its common sense, True and False is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as it is inspiring.

Author: David Mamet
ISBN-10: 0679772642
ISBN-13: 9780679772644
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 02/22/1999
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.50d
By David Mamet
By David Mamet
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David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, as well as a director, novelist, poet, and essayist. He has written the screenplays for more than twenty films, including Heist, Spartan, House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, The Winslow Boy, Wag the Dog, and the Oscar-nominated The Verdict. His more than twenty plays include Oleanna, The Cryptogram, Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and the Pulitzer Prizewinning Glengarry Glen Ross. Born in Chicago in 1947, Mamet has taught at the Yale School of Drama, New York University, and Goddard College, and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.

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