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| 1. |  | Twelve Angry Men (Penguin Classics) from Penguin Classics Price: $6.04 Customer Review:  The novel, Twelve Angry Men, was written by Reginald Rose. Reginald was born in Manhattan. He has also written other plays like Dear Friends and Black Monday. In this book he writes a fictional story about twelve men on jury duty who must decide whether or not a boy is guilty of murdering his... |
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| 2. |  | On Directing Film from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $7.45 Customer Review: The most important thing to learn about directing from this book is that it's all about the story. Mamet summed it up succinctly and profoundly. The book is quite short, and I read it in one day. So, if you're looking for a wordy, authoritative tome, this is not the book for you. If you want a book... |
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| 3. |  | A Practical Handbook for the Actor from Vintage Price: $5.88 Customer Review:  This is a great little book with very down to earth advise that can be implemented, immediately. Unlike other books that discuss years of exercises one must practice to apply the craft of acting, this book gives you concepts that can be applied, today. More intensive study is important, but so is... |
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| 4. |  | The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique from Anchor Price: $8.44 Customer Review: This book came around at a strange time in my life...which I suppose is still happening. Although I was never part of the BFA or MFA program at Rutgers, I did take a few acting classes there as well as get involved in some college theatre. Bill Esper was an icon even back then but I completely took... |
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| 5. |  | Glengarry Glen Ross (Student Editions) from Methuen Drama Price: $10.39 Customer Review: Like Pinter, Mamet is the master not of just the words but the spaces between them; shapes the silence that holds the words together; and reveals the true (subconscious) forces that grip his characters and drive them right over the cliff of their own greed. He is a direct descendant of Pinter and... |
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| 6. |  | Oleanna from Dramatists Play Service Inc Price: $5.50 Customer Review: Totalitarianism, that is. That is what is alive and well and living in the gool ole U.S. of A. As Mamet powerfully represents in this punch-to-the-stomach play, it has found a comfortable spot on American college campuses. Yes, the dialogue in OLEANNA is a bit to get through at times, with far... |
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| 7. |  | True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor from Vintage Price: $7.97 Customer Review: A provocative, no-holds-barred, slap in the face to the traditional methods of acting, noted playwright, director and screenwriter David Mamet minces no words when it comes to the art of acting. Mamet's fierce opinions regarding various schools of acting are a breath of fresh air, and True and... |
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| 8. | [no image] | The cherry orchard from Grove Press Customer Review: I don't think even a seasoned theatre goer could sit through this play if it were directed a drama. I imagine all the brooding speeches, unmotivated pauses, and the inevitable "gloom" of chopping down the cherry trees. The comedy is indeed dark, but sheer silliness abounds with the brother and his... |
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| 9. |  | Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama from Vintage Price: $6.55 Customer Review: Mamet explicates a compelling theory of drama that links the fine and liberal arts with multifarious forms of American religion and social experience. Though he falters into occasionally harsh prescriptivism, he offers a look at one way American dramatists can and do communicate their world to an... |
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| 10. |  | Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (Vintage) from Vintage Price: $7.94 Customer Review: This is a wonderful book, a series of readable, erudite, witty, practical and very wise essays on film - a subject few write on well. David Mamet of course made his name as a playwright and theatre director long before going on to working on filmscripts and directing films; this background gives him... |
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| 11. | [no image] | American Buffalo from Grove Press Price: $9.00 Customer Review: I have always enjoyed this play. I saw it in NYC in its first run on Broadway, then saw a production at the Berkeley Rep some years later. I watched the filmed version recently. This is (as are many of DM's works) a character study. The plot is just a vehicle to give the characters something to talk... |
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| 12. |  | Romance from Dramatist's Play Service Price: $6.50 Customer Review: Mamet is one of my five favorite dialogue playwrights. (Mamet, Sorkin, JHHK, Whedon, QT) And this play is one of my favorite Mamet plays. I bought this and Redbelt. If you've never heard of David Mamet, I don't think you will be reading this review. I own every play and movie Mamet ever wrote. And I... |
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| 13. |  | Writing in Restaurants from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $4.78 Customer Review: As a sometime admirer, but not exactly a fan of, David Mamet's theater work, I wasn't sure how much I'd care for this short collection of essays. I'm very glad I took the chance. Mamet writes clearly and firmly. He's the opposite of dogmatic. He can be harsh but he can also be thoughtful. Most of... |
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| 14. |  | The Wicked Son: Anti-Semitism, Self-hatred, and the Jews (Jewish Encounters) from Schocken Price: $7.32 Customer Review: Jewish Anti-Semitism (not a cute pun on Arab claims of shared Semite classification), has been with us as long as there have been Jews. Speaking as a Jew who finds it increasingly difficult not to dislike many of those who claim, as Mamet points out is their usual self-defining introduction, to "be... |
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| 15. |  | Speed-the-Plow from Grove Press Price: $7.86 Customer Review: This play debuted just after David Mamet directed his first movie, House of Games; it's easy to think the experience left him embittered. The barrages of testosterone-soaked male posturing that dominate plays like Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo are translated to the big-studio film... |
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| 16. |  | Sexual Perversity in Chicago and the Duck Variations: Two Plays from Grove Press Price: $6.75 Customer Review: I must confess the only reason that I read "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" was because of the movie it inspired "About Last Night..." I must have watched this movie a million times having a love and hate for it, these feelings are explained in full detail in my review here on Amazon. My interest... |
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| 17. |  | The Three Sisters from Grove Press Price: $7.27 Customer Review: I recently went to a reading of this play by a theatre group here in Philadelphia that I really enjoy. Although I could write a very positive review of their reading, I'll try and focus on the writing itself. This play presents a masterful peek into societal life for three sisters living in a... |
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| 18. | [no image] | Boston Marriage from Dramatist's Play Service Price: $7.50 Customer Review: Two women live together in a "Boston Marriage" (a long-term living arrangement between women), trying to weasel their way up into high class society but never quite making it. The dialogue of this play is witty and quick. The scenes are scarce. And the subtext of the relationship tensions will... |
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| 19. | [no image] | Goldberg Street: Short plays and monologues (An Evergreen book) from Grove Press Price: $40.82 Customer Review: Mamet, in the introduction, calls these "three and ten minute plays some of the best work I've ever done, but what are they good for?" Many of these plays, especially "Four A.M.", "Cross Patch" and all of the short plays in the "Vermont Sketches" series are between two and five pages and are brief... |
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| 20. | [no image] | Uncle Vanya from Grove/Atlantic Customer Review: good price. shipped fast. good condition. great story. : )...could have used a picture, but no big |
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| 21. |  | Five Cities of Refuge: Weekly Reflections on Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy from Schocken Price: $9.83 Customer Review: This slim volume is the perfect tool for a Torah study class - or just for seeking out two different perspectives on the Torah. Brevity is not a problem here, but the book is not shallow. Kushner and Mamet are quite capable of making you think and making you want to dig deeper. |
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| 22. |  | Theatre from Faber & Faber Price: $14.85 | |
| 23. |  | Woods, Lakeboat, Edmond from Grove Press Price: $8.00 Customer Review: woods is a wonderfull and exiting play, and Edmond is a facanating one. Edmond has a rythem of modern play very much lke a movie. |
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| 24. |  | House of Games from Grove Press Price: $4.90 Customer Review: As far as screenplays go, House of Games is a work of great cutting quality; written in Mamet's recognized concise style, House of Games permeates with a foreboding, volatile aura. When a too structured and career-driven yet refined and scholarly Dr. Margaret Ford, psychiatrist and author of the... |
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| 25. |  | The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy: Two Screenplays from Vintage Price: $4.25 Customer Review: For those who have not seen the films, or have not read Mamet's trademark dialogue before, these two scripts will be bewildering. Following the nuances of the shifting allegiances and the fate of the Macguffin "process" in THE SPANISH PRISONER is difficult, but that's also the fun. I'll admit, even... |
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| 26. |  | November from Samuel French, Inc. Price: $8.95 Customer Review: And it is a farce, folks--let's remember that. Mamet wasn't looking to compete with O'Neill or Kushner, here. If you love brilliant comic writing and you're even a moderate Democrat, this work will leave you howling. It might be funniest play I've ever read. |
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| 27. | [no image] | The Cryptogram. from Dramatists Play Service Price: $6.99 Customer Review: This is a strange, elliptical play. I did not enjoy it as much as some of the other Mamet maniacs here, but I will admit that, in the months since I've read it, I just can't get it out of my head. A lot of this play exists in the subtext of the language and in Mamet's clever "uses of the knife."... |
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| 28. |  | Make-Believe Town: Essays and Remembrances from Back Bay Books Price: $4.88 Customer Review: From SECRET NAMES by David Mamet: "I instance the phrase 'weapons of mass destruction'. This formulation is overlong, clunky, and obviously confected. This is not to say that this or that dictator, or indeed well-meaning soul, may or does not possess such tools. But the formulation itself is... |
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| 29. |  | Faustus from Dramatist's Play Service Price: $6.04 Customer Review:  This was downright disappointing. Faust usually leaves me cold, but at least Goethe's play, despite the tedious length and language, had some meat to it. By stripping it down, Mamet destroys both flesh and bones. The pretentious language telegraphs a con game that has no substance except guilt for... |
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| 30. |  | The Voysey Inheritance from Vintage Price: $6.48 Customer Review: Its like Bernie read this book and then got down to business. What a story! |
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