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This book is ideal for aspiring and professional actors seeking a realistic and uncompromising perspective on the craft and business of acting.
Overturns conventional opinion and tells aspiring actors what they need to know. He leaves no acting tenet untouched: How to judge the role, approach the part, work with the playwright; the right way to undertake auditions and the proper approach to agents and the business in general.
True and False by David Mamet is an invaluable guide to the acting profession, slaughtering a wide range of sacred cows with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's characteristic unsparing honesty.
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David Mamet, the prize-winning playwright, director and teacher, has written a blunt, irreverent and unsparingly honest guide to acting. True and False leaves no acting tenet untouched, overturns conventional opinion, and tells aspiring actors what they really need to know:
How to judge the role and approach the part
How to work with the playwright
The right way to undertake auditions and rehearsals
How to think about the scene
The proper approach to agents; and the business side of acting in general
Mamet is unmistakably clear about why he thinks actors should not be taken in by the highly touted notions that have become commonplace in most acting schools and courses. True and False confronts some of the profession's sacred cows and offers an invaluable guide to acting today.
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Anthony Hopkins praises the book for demolishing myths about acting and directing, calling it "a revealing book of the highest order and a pleasure to read." The Chicago Tribune describes it as "hard-edged, pragmatic and idealistic," recommending it to every actor or would-be actor. The New York Times highlights Mamet's trenchant prose, and Steve Martin asserts that "this book should be read and considered by everyone who acts."
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ISBN: 9780571192618
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 May 1998
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
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Spine width: 22.0mm
Width: 111.0mm
Height: 179.0mm
Weight: 150g
Pages: 144
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About the Author
David Mamet was awarded the Pulitzer prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross. His other plays and screenplays include Speed-the-Plow, American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Winslow Boy The Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog and The Verdict, the last two of which won Academy Award nominations. He has also received an Obie Award, and has written a collection of poems, five collections of essays, and a book on acting, True and False. His first novel, The Village, was published by Faber in 1994, followed by the publication of The Old Religion in 1998.
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