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True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
by David Mamet

True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
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Author: David Mamet
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-02-22
ISBN: 0679772642
Number of pages: 127
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: Punchy, contentious, enormously refreshing
Summary: 5 Stars

Mamet's spare, angry demolition of the nonsense spoken about "great" acting is like pure oxygen to those of us who have harboured - but dared not express - nagging doubts about The Method, Stanislavsky, and a million other shibboleths masquerading as theatrical "wisdom".

His book is brief, practical, important, brave. It's a book to be wrestled with, argued over, acted on.

Actors - read it. Directors, agents, casting directors, staple it to your eyeballs.

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