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Theatre / David Mamet.

by Mamet, David.

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New York [N.Y.] : Faber and Faber, 2010.

Theater -- Philosophy.

9780865479289 (hardcover : alk. paper) :

0865479283 (hardcover : alk. paper)

x, 157 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

The greenroom -- The hunter and the game -- Hunting instincts -- The lamppost and the alley -- The fatal spin -- The problem with "training", or, "Slaves of the ant-god, Throog" -- Emotion -- The map and the territory -- Theatrical forms -- Totalitarian tendencies -- Repression -- Politically correct -- Great American plays and great American poetry -- The bathing machine -- Stagecraft -- Impertinence -- The end of adolescence -- Subvention -- Two teachers -- A culture of confession -- Theatrical culture -- Third parties -- On the general uselessness of the rehearsal process -- The fallacy of the director -- Directing for the stage -- Time.

Calls for no less than the death of the director and the end to acting theory, arguing that either actors are good or they are non-actors, and that good actors work best without the interference of a director.

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