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The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting Series
The Five Approaches to Acting Series by David Kaplan is a comprehensive acting approach that deals with theory and practice for both beginning and advanced actors. David Kaplan's The Five Approaches to Acting Series contains his five approaches to identifying tasks, playing episodes, building images,learning the world of the play, and telling a story. Each approach has its own definition of what it means to act, what it means to act well, what it means to be a character in a performance on stage, and, by extension, what it means to be a person in "real" life. Each approach covers history, theory and examples of its practice.
391 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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David Kaplan
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David Kaplan is the author of Tennessee Williams in Provincetown (Hansen Publishing Group) and The Five Approaches to Acting (Hansen Publishing Group). He is a theater director who stages plays around the world with professional companies in indigenous languages and settings. He is a former Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas, the repository of Tennessee Williams’s literary estate. He has experience directing Williams’s repertory around the world.
In 2003, Mr. Kaplan staged Tennessee Williams’s "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" in Cantonese at the Hong Kong Repertory Theater. Seasons past include directing the first Russian production of Tennessee Williams’s "Suddenly Last Summer" (the subject of a TASS documentary); a Sufi "King Lear" in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, performed in the Uzbek language and broadcast on Uzbek television; and Genet’s "The Maids" in Ulaan Baator, Mongolia, performed in Mongolian. In America, he has staged his own adaptation of "The Circus of Dr. Lao" in Los Angeles, Tennessee Williams’s "The Traveling Companion" at West Beth in New York, and Williams’s "Frosted Glass Coffins" in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also the curator of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival.
David Kaplan is also the author of articles on such varied subjects as Eudora Welty and Andres Segovia, the history of Shakespeare productions in Central Asia, the American monologist Ruth Draper, the twenty-first century freaks of Coney Island USA. His translations of Chinese poetry from eighteenth century Japan will appear in the journal Alehouse early 2007.
David Kaplan is the author of Tennessee Williams in Provincetown (Hansen Publishing Group) and The Five Approaches to Acting (Hansen Publishing Group). He is a theater director who stages plays around the world with professional companies in indigenous languages and settings. He is a former Fellow at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas, the repository of Tennessee Williams’s literary estate. He has experience directing Williams’s repertory around the world.
In 2003, Mr. Kaplan staged Tennessee Williams’s "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" in Cantonese at the Hong Kong Repertory Theater. Seasons past include directing the first Russian production of Tennessee Williams’s "Suddenly Last Summer" (the subject of a TASS documentary); a Sufi "King Lear" in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, performed in the Uzbek language and broadcast on Uzbek television; and Genet’s "The Maids" in Ulaan Baator, Mongolia, performed in Mongolian. In America, he has staged his own adaptation of "The Circus of Dr. Lao" in Los Angeles, Tennessee Williams’s "The Traveling Companion" at West Beth in New York, and Williams’s "Frosted Glass Coffins" in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also the curator of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival.
David Kaplan is also the author of articles on such varied subjects as Eudora Welty and Andres Segovia, the history of Shakespeare productions in Central Asia, the American monologist Ruth Draper, the twenty-first century freaks of Coney Island USA. His translations of Chinese poetry from eighteenth century Japan will appear in the journal Alehouse early 2007.
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August 13, 2009
The Five Approaches to Acting Series by David Kaplan is a comprehensive acting approach that deals with theory and practice for both beginning and advanced actors. David Kaplan’s The Five Approaches to Acting Series contains his five approaches to acting:
1. identifying tasks
2. playing episodes
3. building images
4. learning the world of the play
5. and telling a story.
Each approach has its own definition of what it means to act, what it means to act well, what it means to be a character in a performance on stage, and, by extension, what it means to be a person in “real” life. Each approach covers history, theory and examples of its practice. All five of David Kaplan’s acting approaches are available in one comprehensive, 391 page textbook entitled The Collected Series: The Five Approaches to Acting Series. However, if you prefer a particular method over another, the approaches are available in individual volumes and modestly priced for students.
1. identifying tasks
2. playing episodes
3. building images
4. learning the world of the play
5. and telling a story.
Each approach has its own definition of what it means to act, what it means to act well, what it means to be a character in a performance on stage, and, by extension, what it means to be a person in “real” life. Each approach covers history, theory and examples of its practice. All five of David Kaplan’s acting approaches are available in one comprehensive, 391 page textbook entitled The Collected Series: The Five Approaches to Acting Series. However, if you prefer a particular method over another, the approaches are available in individual volumes and modestly priced for students.
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