The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you…

David Mamet
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The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity. ✨ David Mamet (2011). True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor, p.19, Vintage
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