David Mamet Knihy

Antologie současného anglofonního politického dramatu. Svět politických machinací v britském parlamentu či americkém prezidentském úřadu v černých komediích Brita Steva Thompsona Kdo s koho a Američana Davida Mameta Listopad až neuvěřitelně připomíná současné české prostředí. Idealismus neziskových organizací a problematická snaha spasit svět je terčem jedovaté satiry Boží bojovníci od rebela britského divadla Richarda Beana. Dokumentární drama založené na výpovědích skutečných teroristů a jejich obětí Rozhovory s teroristy od Robina Soanse a subjektivní válečná zkušenost devíti iráckých žen v básnickém podání Heather Raffo Devět dílů touhy jsou důkazem rozmanitosti a popularity současného politického dramatu v Británii a Spojených státech. Pět nových překladů v této antologii má ambice dostat politiku na jeviště i v Česku a dokázat, že politické drama nemusí být propagandistická nuda.

,,Nepraktické teorie překážejí umění i obživě a nepomohou nikomu kromě intelektuálů, pro něž je přemýšlení o divadle dalším z teoretických cvičení, v nichž si tak libují. Podstatou divadla ale je, aby se příjemně cítili i diváci, a ze zkušenosti vím, že aby toho praktik dosáhl, musí se naučit sebekázni.´´

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival, featuring an introduction by David Mamet. This blistering character study examines the American melting pot and the judicial system that upholds it, showcasing a deep patriotic faith in the U.S. legal system. The play focuses on Juror Eight, the only holdout in an 11-1 guilty vote. Rather than seeking to prove the other jurors wrong, Eight aims to encourage them to view the case with clarity, free from personal biases. Reginald Rose skillfully strips away the layers of pretense, revealing a fuller picture of both the jurors and America, at its best and worst. Following the acclaimed 1954 teleplay, this drama became a cinematic masterpiece in 1957, with Rose writing the adaptation. More recently, it enjoyed a successful and award-winning run on Broadway. For over seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics offers a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres, providing authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes from distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, along with up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, director and teacher has written a blunt, unsparingly honest guide to acting. In True and False David Mamet overturns conventional opinion and tells aspiring actors what they really need to know. He leaves no aspect of acting untouched: how to judge the role, approach the part, work with the playwright; the right way to undertake auditions and the proper approach to agents and the business in general. True and False slaughters a wide range of sacred cows and yet offers an invaluable guide to the acting profession

The purpose of theater, like magic, like religion . . . is to inspire cleansing awe. What makes good drama? And why does drama matter in an age that is awash in information and entertainment? David Mamet, one of our greatest living playwrights, tackles these questions with bracing directness and aphoristic authority. He believes that the tendency to dramatize is essential to human nature, that we create drama out of everything from today’s weather to next year’s elections. But the highest expression of this drive remains the theater. With a cultural range that encompasses Shakespeare, Bretcht, and Ibsen, Death of a Salesman and Bad Day at Black Rock, Mamet shows us how to distinguish true drama from its false variants. He considers the impossibly difficult progression between one act and the next and the mysterious function of the soliloquy. The result, in Three Uses of the Knife, is an electrifying treatise on the playwright’s art that is also a strikingly original work of moral and aesthetic philosophy.

Essays discuss gambling, college, magazine writing, clothing, the theater, anti-Semitism, memory, President Nixon, the portrayal of Jews in motion pictures, and screenwriting