{"product_id":"writing-in-restaurants-isbn-9780140089813","title":"Writing in Restaurants","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Essays in direct line from Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Shaw, and Brecht\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Mike Nichols\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of essays from Pulitzer Prize winning playwright David Mamet adressing many issues in contemporary American theater\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTemporarily putting aside his role as playwright, director, and screen-writer, David Mamet digs deep and delivers thirty outrageously diverse vignettes.  On subjects ranging from the vanishing American pool hall, family vacations, and the art of being a bitch, to the role of today's actor, his celebrated contemporaries and predecessors, and his undying commitment to the theater, David Mamet's concise style, lean dialogue, and gut-wrenching honesty give us a unique view of the world as he sees it.Writing in RestaurantsPreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI. Writing in Restaurants\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Capture-the-Flag, Monotheism, and the Techniques of Arbitration\u003cbr\u003e A National Dream-Life\u003cbr\u003e Radio Drama\u003cbr\u003e A Tradition of the Theater as Art\u003cbr\u003e First Principles\u003cbr\u003e Stanislavsky and the American Bicentennial\u003cbr\u003e An Unhappy Family\u003cbr\u003e Some Thoughts on Writing in Restaurants\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Exuvial Magic \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Exuvial Magic: An Essay Concerning Fashion\u003cbr\u003e True Stories of Bitches\u003cbr\u003e Notes for a Catalog for Raymond Saunders\u003cbr\u003e Decadence\u003cbr\u003e A Family Vacation\u003cbr\u003e Semantic Chickens\u003cbr\u003e Chicago\u003cbr\u003e On Paul Ickovic's Photographs\u003cbr\u003e A Playwright in Hollywood\u003cbr\u003e Oscars\u003cbr\u003e Pool Halls\u003cbr\u003e Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Life in the Theater \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epitaph for Tennessee Williams\u003cbr\u003e Regarding \u003ci\u003eA Life in the Theater\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Concerning \u003ci\u003eThe Water Engine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Decay: Some Thoughts for Actors, Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard, February 10, 1986\u003cbr\u003e Notes on \u003ci\u003eThe Cherry Orchard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acting\u003cbr\u003e Realism\u003cbr\u003e Against Amplification\u003cbr\u003e Address to the American Theater Critics Convention at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 25, 1978\u003cbr\u003e Observations of a Backstage Wife\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Essays in direct line from Stanislavsky, Chekhov, Shaw, and Brecht\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Mike Nichols\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWriting in Restaurants\u003c\/i\u003e is rich with anecdotes . . . composed in precise mellifluous language.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Passion, clarity, commitment, intelligence—just what one would expect from Mamet\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Sidney Lumet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Graceful, forceful, hortatory essays of a profoundly moral writer of our time\"\u003cbr\u003e —Richard Christiansen, \u003cb\u003eChicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e -- Publishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Mamet'\u003c\/b\u003es numerous plays include Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross (winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award), American Buffalo, Speed-the-Plow, Boston Marriage, November, Race and The Anarchist. He wrote the screenplays for such films as The Verdict, The Untouchables and Wag the Dog, and has twice been nominated for an Academy Award. He has written and directed ten films, including Homicide, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, House of Games, Spartan and Redbelt. In addition, he wrote the novels The Village, The Old Religion, Wilson and many books of nonfiction, including Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business; Theatre; Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama and the New York Times bestseller The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture. His HBO film Phil Spector, starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren, aired in 2013 and earned him two Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Writing and Outstanding Directing. He was co-creator and executive producer of the CBS television show The Unit and is a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303955681509,"sku":"NP9780140089813","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140089813.jpg?v=1767744611","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/writing-in-restaurants-isbn-9780140089813","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}