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Three Uses Of The Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama (Diaries, Letters and Essays)

Three Uses Of The Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama (Diaries, Letters and Essays)

by David Mamet (Author)

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Synopsis

A paperback edition of award-winning dramatist David Mamet's acclaimed collection of theatre essays. Renowned playwright, screenwriter, poet and essayist David Mamet explains the necessity, purpose and demands of drama. A celebration of the ties that bind art to life, Three Uses of the Knife will enthral anyone who has sat anxiously waiting for the lights to go up on Act 1. In three tightly woven essays of characteristic force and resonance, Mamet speaks about the connection of art to life, language to power, imagination to survival, public spectacle to private script. Self-assured and filled with autobiographical touches Three Uses of the Knife is a call to art and arms, a manifesto that reminds us of the singular power of the theatre to keep us sane, whole and human. 'Mamet's writing is tight, spare, and as accurate and ruthless as a scalpel' Sunday Times

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 01 Apr 2007
ISBN 10: 0713685581
ISBN 13: 9780713685589
Book Overview: David Mamet is regarded as one of the greatest living American playwrights In these essays Mamet provides a powerful case for the importance of theatre which will appeal to anyone interested in the arts and culture generally 'The finest American playwright of his generation' Sunday Times On his play The Old Neighborhood: 'Mamet, ranked with Miller, Albee and Shepard as America's finest playwrights, distills the raw, rank flavour of people wading down streams of consciousness... A play of riveting disquiet' Evening Standard

Media Reviews
'Self-assured and filled with autobiographical touches... If you don't know his work, you have a surprise treat in store. I cannot commend highly enough this analysis of the cancers that he sees beleaguering the work of so many dramatists. Thank you Metheun for making this possible and all for a penny less than GBP10!' Amateur Stage (June 2007) 'A stimulating contribution to an important debate... An invigorating read - as stimulating as it is entertaining... His arguments are intruiging and enlightening... Mamet's contribution... is significant.' Reviews Gate (August 2007)
Author Bio
David Mamet one of America's great dramatists and screenwriters. His plays include Oleanna; Glengarry Glen Ross, for which he won a Pulitzer Pri ze and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award; Speed-the-Plow; and Sexual Perversity in Chicago, among others. His films include, as screenwriter, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Verdict, The Untouchables, The Edge and Wag the Dog, and as a writer/director, House of Games, Homicide, Things Change , The Spanish Prisoner and State and Main. He is also the author of children's books; books of essays; novels and a book on acting, True and False.