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True and False

New Ed edition
  • 5.0 (3 ratings) ·
  • 51 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, director, and teacher gives us a blunt, irreverent, unsparingly honest guide to acting that overturns conventional truths and tells aspiring actors what they really need to know.

David Mamet leaves no acting tenet untouched: How to judge the role, approach the part, work with the playwright. How to concentrate and think about the scene. How to avoid becoming the Paint-by-Numbers Mechanical Actor, the "How'm I Doing?" Ham Actor, the over-the-top "Hollywood Huff" Actor. The right way to undertake auditions and rehearsals. The proper approach to agents, to individual jobs, and to the business in general. The question of talent.

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Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pages
128

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Cover of: True and False
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
February 22, 1999, Vintage
Paperback in English
Cover of: True and False
True and False
May 18, 1998, Faber and Faber
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: True and false
True and false: heresy and common sense for the actor
1997, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: True and false
True and false: heresy and common sense for the actor
1997, Pantheon Books
in English - 1st ed.

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First Sentence

"My closest friends, my intimate companions, have always been actors."

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
128
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
Weight
5.6 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7857118M
ISBN 10
0571192610
ISBN 13
9780571192618
Library Thing
70673
Goodreads
821290

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