Writing in Restaurants

Temporarily 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.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Writing in Restaurants	p. 1
Capture-the-Flag, Monotheism, and the Techniques of Arbitration	p. 3
A National Dream-Life	p. 8
Radio Drama	p. 12
A Tradition of the Theater as Art	p. 19
First Principles	p. 24
Stanislavsky and the American Bicentennial	p. 28
An Unhappy Family	p. 31
Some Thoughts on Writing in Restaurants	p. 34
Exuvial Magic	p. 39
Exuvial Magic: An Essay Concerning Fashion	p. 41
True Stories of Bitches	p. 43
Notes for a Catalogue for Raymond Saunders	p. 50
Decadence	p. 57
A Family Vacation	p. 60
Semantic Chickens	p. 65
Chicago	p. 69
On Paul Ickovic's Photographs	p. 73
A Playwright in Hollywood	p. 75
Oscars	p. 80
Pool Halls	p. 87
Things I Have Learned Playing Poker on the Hill	p. 93
Life in the Theater	p. 99
Epitaph for Tennessee Williams	p. 101
Regarding A Life in the Theater	p. 103
Concerning The Water Engine	p. 107
Decay: Some Thoughts for Actors, Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture, Harvard, February 10, 1986	p. 110
Notes on The Cherry Orchard	p. 118
Acting	p. 126
Realism	p. 130
Against Amplification	p. 135
Address to the American Theater Critics Convention at the Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota, August 25, 1978	p. 138
Observations of a Backstage Wife	p. 142
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