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True and False

True and False

by David Mamet (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

A guide to the acting profession by a leading American playwright. He advises aspiring actors on topics such as judging a role, approaching the part, working with the playwright, undertaking auditions, and the relationship with agents and the business in general.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 18 May 1998
ISBN 10: 0571192610
ISBN 13: 9780571192618
Book Overview: 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.

Media Reviews
Mamet manages to demolish the myths...that pass for theory with regard o acting and directing. . . True and False is a revealing book of the highest order and a pleasure to read --Anthony Hopkins
Hard-edged, pragmatic and idealistic. . . . Every actor or would-be actor should read this book. -- Chicago Tribune

Trenchant...Meet's pared-down, occasionally cryptic prose can make powerful sense. -- The New York Times

This book should be read and considered by everyone who acts. --Steve Martin
Author Bio
David Mamet is a director and the author of numerous acclaimed plays, books and screenplays. His play Glengarry Glen Ross won the Pulitzer Prize, and his screenplays for The Verdict and Wag the Dog were nominated for Academy Awards. He has also received an Obie Award, and has written a collection of poems, five collections of essays, and books on acting and directing, most recently Theatre (2010). His first novel, The Village, was published by Faber in 1994, followed by the publication of The Old Religion in 1998 and Wilson in 2000.