A Life in the Theatre (1992)

by David Mamet

Directed by Pip Piacentino

Performances: Tues 3rd - Sat 7th March 1992, Bell Theatre

Introduction

A life in the theatre is spent giving things away. It is a life mobile, unstable, unsure of employment, of acceptance. We in the theatre tell stories about and on ourselves and colleagues, and these stories are exactly the same onesAristophanes told to and on his friends. It is vey important to tell and retell stories as the only real history of the ephemoral arts is an oral history. We acquire skills through constant practice. They accrue in incrementsso small that we seem to be making no progress. We lose competance in the same way - taking for granted our hard-won habits and barely aware they are leaving us. When you go into the professional worls, somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor - he will tell you tales and anecdotes about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others; he will generalise to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about teh laws of the stage. Not only do these people exist, but as one continues a theatrical career, one has a tendancy to turn inot them. My play "A Life In The Theatre" is a comedy about this life>

David Mamet

Cast

• Robert - Alan Buckman
• John - Keefe Browning

Crew

• Stage Manager - Paul O'Connor
• Assistant Stage Managers - Anji Gibson, Jason Lee & Dorothea Seide
• Lighting Design - Gareth Barker
• Lighting Operation - Melanie Deborca
• Sound - John Hartnett
• Scenery - Trevor Court
• Prompt - Maggie Cearns

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