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David Mamet Memo to "The Unit" Writing Staff
David Mamet's memo provides guidelines for the writing staff of the TV show "The Unit" regarding the importance of drama, storytelling, and creating engaging scenes that advance the plot.
screencraft.orgGlengarry Glen Ross
the outrageous kinds of moral manipulation we suffer at the hands of most contemporary directors,
David Foster Wallace • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
How’s tricks in the sticks,
Harold Pinter • The Short Plays of Harold Pinter
Arnold Aronson blames it all on the introduction of the chair to the stage. Once you put a chair on the stage, we sit down and have a chat. You know, “Mrs. Tesman, let’s have a little chat.”
Sarah Ruhl • BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl
mediocre play watched
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Within a five-block radius of my apartment there are four first-run multiplexes and a dozen thirty-to-fifty-seat revival houses with rotating programs devoted to obscure and well-known actors, directors, and genres. These are the mom-and-pop theaters, willing to proceed with the two o’clock showing of The Honeymoon Killers even if I’m the only one
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