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Writing in Restaurants Preface Acknowledgments
I. 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
II. Exuvial Magic
Exuvial Magic: An Essay Concerning Fashion True Stories of Bitches Notes for a Catalog 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
III. 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
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Rhonna Duntenschachter
reviewed Writing in Restaurants on December 16, 2014
Writing in Restaurants
I read this because it was short.
Never read books because they're short.
In fairness, I enjoy Mamet as a playwright and I always like to see the theories by which great writers do their writing. Sometimes they surprise you -- Auden's criticism I could read all day long, every day -- sometimes they live up to Plato's old adage that the last possible person you should ask about how poetry ought to work is a poet. They don't know, either. All they know is that it comes to them.
I'm paraphrasing, of course, but that's how this one struck me.
I did enjoy his notes about the incantatory, rule-setting power of words at an early age, and the diary from the making of an 80s movie about an Iceman was hilarious in terms of how seriously everyone seemed to be taking the process.
His piece on the Oscars as a modern religious ritual is great if you want to be That Guy With The Deep Serious Metaphysical Theory Of The Oscars who is ruining the party and making everyone else huddle around the dip. Actually, if you are That Guy, you'd probably like this whole book.
If not, give it a pass and read a play instead. In those, he knows what he's talking about.
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