| Description |
xiv, 160 pages ; 23 cm |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Writing in Restaurants -- Capture-the-Flag, Monotheism, and the Techniques of Arbitration -- A National Dream-Life -- Radio Drama -- A Tradition of the Theater as Art -- First Principles -- Stanislavsky and the American Bicentennial -- An Unhappy Family -- Some Thoughts on Writing in Restaurants -- Exuvial Magic -- Exuvial Magic: An Essay Concerning Fashion -- True Stories of Bitches -- Notes for a Catalogue for Raymond Saunders -- Decadence -- A Family Vacation -- Semantic Chickens -- Chicago -- On Paul Ickovic's Photographs -- A Playwright in Hollywood -- Oscars -- Pool Halls -- Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill -- Life in the Theater -- Epitaph for Tennessee Williams -- Regarding A Life in the Theater -- Concerning The Water Engine -- Decay: Some Thoughts for Actors, Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard, February 10, 1986 -- Notes on The Cherry Orchard -- Acting -- Realism -- Against Amplification -- Address to the American Theater Critics Convention at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 25, 1978 -- Observations of a Backstage Wife. |
| Subject |
Theater -- United States.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Mamet, David. Writing in restaurants. New York : Viking, 1986 (OCoLC)568421756 |
| ISBN |
0670811408 |
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9780670811403 |
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