Description
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. --from Publisher Description To The Actor -- Some Thoughts -- Ancestor Worship -- A Generation That Would Like To Stay In School -- Scholarship -- Find Your Mark -- I'm On The Corner -- Business Is Business -- Auditions -- Paint By Numbers -- Work -- Oral Interpretation -- Helping The Play -- Acceptance -- The Rehearsal Process -- The Play And The Scene -- Emotions -- Action -- Guild -- Concentration -- Talent -- Habit -- The Designated Hitter -- Performance And Character -- The Villain And The Hero -- Acting As If -- They Once Walked Among Us -- Eleven O'clock Always Comes -- Meritocracy. David Mamet. Originally Published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1997.
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