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Lädt ... Theatre (2010)von David Mamet
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Brilliant playwright with interesting insights and guidance. ( ) Mamet, in his new role as apostate, explores the theatre, starting from the time of Stanislavsky and Chekov, whose plays needed to be secretive, first because of the totalitarian czars, then because of the totalitarian Bolsheviks. So nothing was explicit. But this tradition he says has carried on erroneously into the present, with bad consequences for the health of theatre. He lambasts "Method" acting, since in his view there are no hidden lives to the characters other than what is made explicit by the words they actually say, as well as all the machinery and bureaucracy of modern theatre. He also demotes directing, since, for him, it's all up to the actors and the script, and the director has little role except for blocking the scenes. It's a nice little read. In the section I found most interesting, he likens a good dramatic play to a communal and instinctual hunt, with the audience repeatedly asking, "Then what?" He makes the ultimate point that it's the irrationality of a theatre audience that a good drama taps into; that it's about turning off one's rationality and getting back into something more primitive and deeply satisfying for a bit of time. Zeige 3 von 3
A cranky collection of essays that take on pretentious directors and subsidized productions. I have to admit that Mamet’s certainties and oversimplifications sometimes make one feel one is being bludgeoned over the head. But there is so much pretentiousness in the theatre, so much fluffy thinking and luvvie-speak, that Mamet’s firm views strike me as a bracing and necessary corrective even if they do sometimes seem brutally reductive.
Calls for no less than the death of the director and the end to acting theory, arguing that either actors are good or they are non-actors, and that good actors work best without the interference of a director. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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