Writing in Restaurants; Exuvial Magic; Life in the Theater - Softcover

Mamet, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140089810 ISBN 13: 9780140089813

Publisher: Penguin, 1988

Synopsis

Temporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes. On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a bitch, to the role of today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the world as he sees it.

About this title

Review:

"Essays in direct line from Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Shaw, and Brecht"
--Mike Nichols

"Writing in Restaurants is rich with anecdotes . . . composed in precise mellifluous language."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence--just what one would expect from Mamet"
--Sidney Lumet

"Graceful, forceful, hortatory essays of a profoundly moral writer of our time"
--Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

David Mamet 's Glengarry Glen Ross won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1984. He is also the author of Writing in Restaurants and On Directing Film, both available from Penguin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0140089810
• ISBN 13: 9780140089813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176