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ISBN-10: 0140089810
ISBN-13: 9780140089813
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publish Date: 10/01/1987
Dimensions: 7.74" L, 5.08" W, 0.49" H

Writing in Restaurants

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“Essays in direct line from Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Shaw, and Brecht”
–Mike Nichols

A collection of essays from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet adressing many issues in contemporary American theater

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.

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"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

"Among the themes explored are why radio is a great training ground for writers, theater as an arena for dreams and the subconscious, Tennessee Williams's dramatic mission, and the craze for fashion as a symptom of the middle class's sterile lifestyle and loss of the ability to fantasize." – Publishers Weekly

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Details

ISBN-10: 0140089810
ISBN-13: 9780140089813
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publish Date: 10/01/1987
Dimensions: 7.74" L, 5.08" W, 0.49" H
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