True and false
True and false: heresy and common sense for the actor David Mamet
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c1997.
ISBN: 0679442499
DDC: 792.028
LCC: PN2061
Summary:
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.
Notes:
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 -- Guilt -- 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.
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