The Conversational Reality

By Mimi Kramer-Bryk

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Some years ago, in the middle of an acting class he was giving, the playwright David Mamet launched into a brief send-up of 1930s telephone exposition. He was talking about the evolution of style, explaining why so much of what he and the actor William H. Macy had always taught was diametrically opposed to what he called “enlightened acting.” By this, Mamet meant primarily “Method” acting, a technique—he pointed out—that had been all about… Continue reading

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