How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?: Writings on Theater--and Why It MattersRoutledge, 2013-12-16 - 304 psl. First Published in 2000. Why do we go to the theater? There's a question! Or put it this way: Why, oh why, do we go to the theater? If we go to a movie and it isn't any good, well it's not the end of the world. We're usually quite content just the same. It passes the time. Though, as Samuel Beckett pointed out, the time would have passed anyway. But if we're disappointed at the theater, everything changes dramatically. We cannot while away the time at the theater. Time becomes precious. This is a collection of writings about the world of the theatre and includes pieces about Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson, Arthur Miller, Michael Bennett, Noel Coward, Barbra Streisand, Ralph Fiennes and more. |
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... talking during a play , I've lost patience and said to them : “ Ssssh ! This is not a movie . ” ( At which they look surprisingly shocked . ) But what can you do ? Only moments before the curtain went up on Art , the couple behind me ...
... talking during a play , I've lost patience and said to them : “ Ssssh ! This is not a movie . ” ( At which they look surprisingly shocked . ) But what can you do ? Only moments before the curtain went up on Art , the couple behind me ...
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... talk . ( He shakes his head pityingly . ) And it's so slow . They do it slowly . And the way they act ! It's so old - fashioned . In these big barns and they have to shout . Why don't we admit it ? It's been superseded . It had its ...
... talk . ( He shakes his head pityingly . ) And it's so slow . They do it slowly . And the way they act ! It's so old - fashioned . In these big barns and they have to shout . Why don't we admit it ? It's been superseded . It had its ...
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... talk animatedly about the classical tradition , and Shakespeare in particular , as if our very lives depended on it . “ It's a living heritage , ” he argued . “ For me the English national identity isn't invested in the text of ...
... talk animatedly about the classical tradition , and Shakespeare in particular , as if our very lives depended on it . “ It's a living heritage , ” he argued . “ For me the English national identity isn't invested in the text of ...
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... talk and debate and argue into the small hours as if Shakespeare were still alive . There are leading innovative directors in England who have yet to stage a living playwright . “ I feel I have , ” explained Deborah Warner . “ I always ...
... talk and debate and argue into the small hours as if Shakespeare were still alive . There are leading innovative directors in England who have yet to stage a living playwright . “ I feel I have , ” explained Deborah Warner . “ I always ...
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Lunch with Gielgud and Richardson | 25 |
Noёl Coward at Seventy | 34 |
Tranquil in Connecticut with Arthur Miller | 40 |
Englands Great CIown | 44 |
His Name Escapes Him | 48 |
In Memoriam Michael Bennett | 53 |
Peter Brook Barbra Streisand and Me | 58 |
No Tony for Julie | 164 |
What Is the Sound of One Hand Acting? | 167 |
Country Matters | 171 |
Oscar Wildes Brilliant Lunatics | 175 |
APlotz for David Ives | 178 |
No 1 Dance Hall Chicken Inna New York City | 181 |
Lost in Suburbia | 184 |
VoltaireShmoltaire | 187 |
Angels in America Parts 1 and 2 | 63 |
Janet McTeerUptheStage | 69 |
Hurry Up Please Its Time | 72 |
The Great Gambon | 75 |
Mr Brantleys Torsos | 80 |
The Ralph Fiennes Hamlet | 83 |
We Like It a Lot | 87 |
The Mayfair Medea | 91 |
Who Was the Jew Shakespeare Knew? | 94 |
Anything Goes with the Professor | 98 |
Art Is Good for You | 101 |
A Helluva Musical | 105 |
Its Big Its Safe Its Full of Generic Symbolism | 109 |
Whatever Happened to Class? | 112 |
Farewell Carousel | 115 |
My Blood Brother and Me | 118 |
Sleeping at the Theater | 122 |
The Killing of Wonderful Tennessee | 125 |
How to Murder Your Mother | 128 |
Brave New World | 131 |
Safe Pedophilia | 134 |
The Sad Tale of Jack the Cat | 137 |
Brilliant Blues | 141 |
Holocaust Denial | 145 |
The Amazing Vanessa Redgrave | 149 |
The Still Subversive Joe Orton | 152 |
Theater Thingie of the Year | 156 |
Slumming with Sam Shepard | 160 |
Shoing and Fucking | 190 |
Et In Arcadia Ego | 194 |
The America Play | 198 |
How America Was Lost | 201 |
These Gentle Artists | 204 |
The Jerry Stiller Three Sisters | 207 |
Needles and Opium | 211 |
The Three Ages of Woman | 214 |
The God of Lies | 217 |
Mametspeak | 220 |
How Good is David Mamet Anyway? | 225 |
Beckettscape | 229 |
Robert Brusteins Unfortunate Dance Lesson | 233 |
Everything Is Beautiful | 237 |
Pimp Fop Flop | 241 |
Hakuna Matata | 243 |
Dont Shoot the Composer | 247 |
A Great Electra | 251 |
Nicole Kidman Live Naked Movie Star | 254 |
Judi Judi Judi | 260 |
Harv the Marv | 264 |
Amazing Grace | 268 |
The Anglophile New York Times | 271 |
Iceman Cometh | 275 |
Act of Love | 279 |
Arthur Miller Comes Home | 282 |
Index | 287 |
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How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?– Writings on Theatre--and why it Matters John Heilpern Ribota peržiūra - 2000 |
How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?– Writings on Theater--and Why It Matters John Heilpern Ribota peržiūra - 2013 |
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