So don't have a back up plan and don't go to school...This man is crazy. Not everyone will make it in the acting world no matter how bad they want it or how hard they work for it.
So this odd thing is starting to happen. I read and agree with everything I read. But then I think about it and I can't put together a "bigger picture". So anyway in the chapter Business is Business I get the concepts of wanting to please everyone and agree 100%. Then I can latch on to the idea that there is no character you are the character. But then there is all this talk about not adding to what the writer has done. "invent nothing, deny nothing" what the heck does that even mean? I've always been of the impression that invention is what theatre is all about. You invent another person another world. This is what makes me like theatre. Mamet then goes on to talk about acting teachers. Now I agree that acting teachers are not the best (although I would not call them frauds). I also think that being in a school simply allows you to call your self part of theatre (I'll admit it's why I'm here). I do believe that you will get more out of stage experience rather than class room experiences. Now with all that said I can't help calling Mamet himself a fraud. Is he not trying to Teach people a way of approaching the theatre world. Isn't this just a different method that has evolved out of what Mamet thinks others did wrong?
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