You can't pronounce "Mamet" without "meh."

There are valid points in there. There is also a lot of nonsense. I was mostly amused that David Fucking Mamet is telling people to try to write scenes without dialogue.

Oh, the bit about how it's the director's job to remind the actors to talk fast did make me laugh. Although I think that's more important with Aaron Sorkin's shows.

No really. If you don't regularly remind actors to pick up the pace, they will savor every line until the glaciers melt.

And come back.

Not bad, but I'm fucking ambivalent about fucking Mamet. Although I am very anxious that my scripts not be CROCKS OF SHIT, natch.

I love Mamet mostly, but I did get to tell him face to face that his version of Faustus was a crock of shit.

man it is like Deadwood in here.

I fucking love it.

Swidgin'!

No really. If you don't regularly remind actors to pick up the pace, they will savor every line until the glaciers melt.

HAHAHAHA! Oh, so fucking true.

Cocksuckers.

I love Mamet mostly, but I did get to tell him face to face that his version of Faustus was a crock of shit.

Ooooh! What shade of purple did he turn?

He took it very well. It's a funny story - I met the artistic director of the Magic Theatre (Chris) at the Mechanics Institute Library, and he invited me to see Mamet's production of Faustus (Chris knew I was studying Doctor Faustus).

I went, and ended up at a bar with Mamet, Chris, and the lead, David Rasche, afterwards. Only, I am stupid and didn't know what Mamet looked like. Rasche asked me how I liked the play, and I said that it didn't work because in this version, Faustus never actually gets to make a decision or strike a deal (he is tricked into it), thereby completely undoing the point of the Marlowe and Goethe's original.

Mamet: "I'll take that into consideration before we take it to New York."

Me: "......"