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Pinter'0? + Mamet'06

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topics: vtheatre * PM method acting * pm drama * godot * reckless * bad subjects, wrong theories *

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Stage Directing Theory

Directing Theory: pre-text, text and super-text = playscript + spectacle + public

Pinter Page pomo I

set -- office (light, door, board, desk, phone) -- notes page * doc (subdirectory) = lists biblio:

Mamet is the second (3rd? counting Beckett) generation of PM?

They are not aware of their feeling, even their gender...

Mamet Vs. Mamet: He's Playwright, Director, Theorist - and His Own Worst Enemy Magazine article by Todd London; American Theatre, Vol. 13, July-August 1996

David Mamet: A Research and Production Sourcebook by David K. Sauer, Janice A. Sauer; Praeger, 2003

Plato in Hollywood: David Mamet and the Power of Illusions Journal article by Howard Pearce; Mosaic (Winnipeg), Vol. 32, 1999

Between Men and Women Magazine article by David Mamet; The Nation, Vol. 262, January 1, 1996

Beyond Naturalism: A New Realism in American Theatre by William W. Demastes; Greenwood Press, 1988 - Chapter Three. David Mamet's Dis-Integrating Drama

Realism and the American Dramatic Tradition by William W. Demastes; University of Alabama Press, 1996 - Fifteen: Anti-Theatricality and American Ideology: Mamet's Performative Realism

Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama by Marc Maufort; Peter Lang, 1995 - The Devil's Advocate:: David Mamet's Oleanna and Political Correctness

Delights, Desires, and Dilemmas: Essays on Women and the Media by Ann C. Hall; Praeger Publishers, 1998 - Chapter 9: Misogyny and Misanthropy: Anita Hill and David Mamet

Critical Angles: European Views of Contemporary American Literature by Marc Chénetier; Southern Illinois University Press, 1986 - 12: David Mamet, a Virtuoso of Invective

Ionesco "Lesson"?

She thinks that she is lesbian. His relations with his wife?

movie: Oleanna * Oleanna (1994) Starring: William H. Macy, Debra Eisenstadt Director: David Mamet B00009Y3N9

DVD review:
"David Mamet's 1992 two-character stage play Oleanna dramatized a power struggle between a university professor and a female student who accuses him of sexual harassment and rape..."

Oleanna (Paperback) by David Mamet $6.50 Dramatists Play Service Inc 0822213435

Oleanna: A Play (Vintage Original) (Paperback) 067974536X $9.84

sparknotes: Oleanna

Oleanna wikipedia

Pinter directed Oleanna

Oleanna from David Mamet Society

play review * University of Waterloo Gazette

[ As titles go, this one is rather obscure. Oleanna refers to a folk story about how a man (named Ole) and his wife (Anna) bought acres of swampland then sold it as farmland to those who were willing to invest their lives' savings. Once the money had been collected, the pair vanished and the buyers were left with worthless property. This became known as the "Oleanna swindle." For Mamet, higher education may be today's "Oleanna swindle." ]

Double cast: to play subtext in movement?

3 scenes -- one/no intermission?

SM -- Ben

AD - Jon (page in THR331)

Dramaturg -- Craig

mamet.eserver.org : mamet society

oleanna: stage vs. screen (audio) -- Oleanna works on the stage because it concentrates conflict within a theatre to create a threatening space from which there is no escape. But on the screen, this dissipates as conflict becomes pathos at the same time it tempts viewers with visual escape, although there is no place to go (in his other work, escape and action seem to substitute for language: re Heist or Spartan ). Carol can claim that she wants action not words from John but neither he, nor Mamet, delivers.

... As Mamet has stated, Oleanna is "a play about the uses and abuses of power, and the corruption is on both sides" (my emphasis). Pinter (to whom Mamet dedicated Glengarry Glen Ross ) knows a thing or two about dramatizing the uses and abuses of power, and about how to portray that struggle for power subtextually; his production proved to be the perfect marriage of director and play. [ * ]

Dance of Power: mi-en-scene (desk, two chairs, floor plan). Three-act-structure.

Power Dance (African) -- and Flamingo ?

blackboard (rolling) as his chair (as an electric chair) -- [ his/her drawings ]

coat tree

table lamp (green?)

slide projector?

Desk top computor?

She has her laptop?

costumes ideas -- "metalic" in her?

Changes in their appearance through 1 - 2 - 3 ...

"His book" -- many copies on his shelf (what subject)?

prop list

1. Morning

2. Day

3. Night

Rain? (sound) -- techno.mid mamet sound (sample)

[ images -- film-north album, vtheatre gallery, flickr? ]

Oleanna: All performances in the Lee H. Salisbury Theatre
Friday, October 20, 2006 @ 8:15pm
Saturday, October 21, 2006 @ 8:15pm
Friday, October 27, 2006 @ 8:15pm
Saturday, October 28, 2006 @ 8:15pm
Sunday, October 29, 2006 @ 2:00pm

11.2.06 -- Postmotem (notes will be posted by Dramaturg at vtheatre group/list).

Mini-reviews form directing class (assignments) are at yahoo-cls-directing.

Assistant of Director (AD) notes.

Stage Manager Book [ * ].

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books/biblio -- articles on Mamet : between Hamlet and Petruccio

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vTheatre Glossary:

Index * Theatre w/Anatoly Theatre Books
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Mamet. Oleanna

phone rings... Preshow. [ for 15 min.? ] production (cast + crew) : groups.yahoo.com/group/vtheatre

minimalism -- symbolism: his desk -- icon of what? Wife's photo framed. [ props]

phone? two -- one cell.

briefcase? papers ...

the book -- many copies on his shelf.

her notebook --

the tree of knowledge -- where?

MAMET, DAVID
1947�, American playwright and film director, b. Chicago. He taught drama and produced some of his early plays at Goddard College. His work, often dealing with the success and failure of the American dream, is noted for its sharp, spare, compressed, often profane, and muscularly insightful dialogue. He came to public attention with such plays as Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974) and American Buffalo (1975), later achieving success with the corrosively brilliant Glengarry Glen Ross (1983; Pulitzer) and Oleanna (1992). He also wrote screenplays for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981), Hoffa (1992), the film version of Glengarry (1992), and many others. In 1987, Mamet made his debut as a film director with House of Games, a complex story about deception and gullibility; he has since written and directed several films, including The Spanish Prisoner (1997) and Heist (2001).
By the beginning of the 21st cent. Mamet was widely regarded as one of the finest American writers for stage and screen. Some of his later plays, such as The Cryptogram (1995) and The Old Neighborhood (1997), have explored difficult semiautobiographical material. Throughout his career, Mamet has treated the themes of belonging, the vagaries of authority, the pivotal role played by loyalty, and the importance of speaking the truth. In addition to over 20 plays and more than a dozen screenplays, the prolific Mamet has also written novels, e.g., The Village (1994), several collections of essays (including the autobiographical Jafsie and John Henry, 1999), and a book on acting (1997).
____________________
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright� 2004, Columbia University Press.
Now I believe that all language for the theatre should be taken from life. It is no longer permissible to invent. This means the concern will not only be for the highly articulate man using words with care and for effect, but also with the idiot mumblings of the half-wit who lives down the lane.
in a lecture he gave at the Old Vic in 1957. In it he said (perhaps half-ironically) * Is the Theatre Still Dying? by Eric Salmon; Greenwood Press, 1985 p. 224 - 10 Three American Plays

... Mamet's production lasted ninety minutes; the printed Royal Court script noted one intermission and two hours and ten minutes duration to the production directed by Pinter [p.234]
... �Pinter's production�far better than the one I saw in New York�which releases the mythic quality under the realistic surface.� Mamet created �a superb mythic drama about the breaking of the social contract that makes all education possible: when John approaches Carol as a now-vulnerable human being, he is angrily rebuffed and told to 'stick to the process.' Mamet's point is that once people resort to ideological jargon or legalistic devices, then the whole idea of intellectual freedom breaks down. [�] Suchet in the first half is all intellectual condescension [�] by the second half he has become a stricken victim finally goaded to a fury he bitterly rejects. And Lia Williams makes Carol's transformation from a muddled despair to an iron certainty wholly convincing.�
rO 4.4 Boycott, Rosie. Rev. of Oleanna.Guardian 7 July 1993. Rpt. in Theatre Record 18 June-1 July 1993:747.
from David Mamet: A Research and Production Sourcebook. Contributors: David K. Sauer - author, Janice A. Sauer - author. Publisher: Praeger. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 2003.

papers and books. Desk? Shelves. We look through them? A lot of props.
Her briefcase, bag (?)... Visual Quotes from Taming of the Shrew [ images + Jocasta ideas for dress design ]
Lolita [Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] 2006:
concept of the character

His portrait -- "Humbert Humbert" (Lolita): Father-Daughter? http://www.lib.ru/NABOKOW/lolita.txt
http://www.lib.ru/NABOKOW/lolitaengl.txt + Lem. ��, �� (Russian) ***
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/nabokov/amis.html
Lolita (Vintage International) (Paperback) 0679723161
Lolita Engl. studies
Lolita, Adapted by Michael West from the screenplay by Vladimir Nabokov * Dublin 2002
PLAY: Lolita (Paperback) by Edward Albee (Contributor), Vladimir Nabokov 0822206838 Dramatists Play Service Inc (January 1998)
[ Lolita * A play, adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov ]
Author: Edward Albee
New York (Dramatists Play Service) 1979
Book (but no production rights) available from Dramatists Play Service,
Inc., 440 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016
Performances: Atkinson Theatre, New York City. Premiere: March 19, 1981. Director: Frank Dunlop. Stage design: William Ritman. Producer: Robert Hartman. Lolita: Blanche Baker; Humbert Humbert: Donald Sutherland; Clare Quilty: Clive Revill.
Lolita (Opera)
Composer: Rodion Schedrin (Russia) Libretto: Rodion Schedrin Swedish translation: Lasse Zilliacus Production: Kungliga Teatern (Royal Opera), Stockholm (in Swedish) Premiere: December 14, 1994; seven further performances in December, 1994 and January, 1995. Director: Ann-Margret Pettersson. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich. Stage design: John Conklin. Lolita: Lisa Gustafsson (soprano); Humbert Humbert: Per-Arne Wahlgren.
Annabel Lee (Poe):
But our love it was stronger by far than the love 
Of those who were older than we� 
Of many far wiser than we� 
And neither the angels in Heaven above 
Nor the demons down under the sea, 
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul 
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee 
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams 
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; 
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes 
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee 
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side 
Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride, 
In the sepulchre there by the sea- 
In her tomb by the sounding sea 
[Nabokov page?]
from The Shrew archives: Pete and Kate (pages) + themes + ...

Popculture is sex driven; another "plato" (Deleuze). POMO double existence [ double sexuality: natural and created ]. Foucault on pm sexuality (sex as construction).
[ Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? notes? ]

Minimalism (as in Beckett).

Also, a comedy?

Review/Theater: Oleanna; Mamet's New Play Detonates The Fury of Sexual Harassment
By FRANK RICH Published: October 26, 1992, Monday

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posters on his office walls?

Athena

Tyche

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Glengarry Glen Ross Obscenity Count + Speech ...

Charlie Rose - David Mamet / Dave Brubeck / Ezra Laderman Segment 1: David Mamet, Playwright/Director Segment 2: Dave Brubeck, Jazz Pianist/Composer Ezra Laderman, Composer/Yale University Free Today - Charlie Rose Inc. - 55 min - Nov 11, 1994

video:

"Speed the Plow" by David Mamet * Larry Kelly and Steve McGraw perform "Speed the Plow". Steve McGraw - 3 min - Apr 24, 2006

Charlie Rose - STONE / MAMET (from 11/11/97) / SIMON (from 11/06/97) Peter Stone, Author (plays: "1776", Titanic") // David Mamet, Author, "True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor" [ ... Free Today - Charlie Rose Inc. - 57 min - Dec 24, 1997 ]

Charlie Rose - MAMET / LUMET / KAHN / THE HERRERAS David Mamet, Author, "True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor" [Pantheon], "The Old Religion" [Free Press]//Sidney Lumet