Reviews
"Essays in direct line from Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Shaw, and Brecht" —Mike Nichols " Writing in Restaurants is rich with anecdotes . . . composed in precise mellifluous language." — The Philadelphia Inquirer "Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence—just what one would expect from Mamet" —Sidney Lumet "Graceful, forceful, hortatory essays of a profoundly moral writer of our time" —Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune, "Essays in direct line from Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Shaw, and Brecht" --Mike Nichols " Writing in Restaurants is rich with anecdotes . . . composed in precise mellifluous language." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence--just what one would expect from Mamet" --Sidney Lumet "Graceful, forceful, hortatory essays of a profoundly moral writer of our time" --Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune "Among the themes explored are why radio is a great training ground for writers, theater as an arena for dreams and the subconscious, Tennessee Williams's dramatic mission, and the craze for fashion as a symptom of the middle class's sterile lifestyle and loss of the ability to fantasize." -- Publishers Weekly, "Essays in direct line from Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Shaw, and Brecht" --Mike Nichols " Writing in Restaurants is rich with anecdotes . . . composed in precise mellifluous language." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer "Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence--just what one would expect from Mamet" --Sidney Lumet "Graceful, forceful, hortatory essays of a profoundly moral writer of our time" --Richard Christiansen, Chicago Tribune
Table of Content
Writing in RestaurantsPreface 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
