Getting to the Task

by David Kaplan

Overview

Getting to the Task, Part One includes practical exercises for class and rehearsals, techniques for analyzing a text for tasks, techniques for maintaining and deepening performances, examples from film to study, and a useful working vocabulary. It explains how other approaches might expand Stanislavsky’s vision. Getting to the Task, Part One separates Stanislavsky from his inaccurate (and widely influential) translators and interpreters in America. Getting to the Task, Part One separates The System from “The Method” — itself the subject of Building Images, Part Three in the Five Approaches to Acting Series.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013887107
Publisher:	Hansen Publishing Group, LLC
Publication date:	12/20/2011
Series:	Five Approaches to Acting Series , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	72
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David Kaplan is also the author of the books Tenn at One Hundred: The Reputation of Tennessee Williams (2011), Tennessee Williams in Provincetown (2007) and various articles about Williams, Eudora Welty, the Japanese artist Ito Jakuchu, and productions of Shakespeare’s plays in Central Asia. He is curator and co-founder of the annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival now in its seventh year. He has staged plays by Williams throughout the world: Suddenly Last Summer in Russia, performed in the Russian language at the Gorky Theater in Samara, Russia; The Eccentricities of a Nightingale performed in Cantonese at the acclaimed Hong Kong Repertory Theater. In America he staged the world premieres of Tennessee Williams’ The Day on Which a Man Dies (in Chicago) and The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View (in Boston).