Word: kaplan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SCENE of Doctor Faustus, John Faustus boldly adopts a course that will allow him to live out his secret desires and satisfy the strongest cravings of his curiousity; in the closing scene he spits upon these pleasures, as he faces his punishment, the inevitable consequence of his boldness. Michael Kaplan's verson of Christopher Marlowe's classic play loses some of the middle ground, but captures with force the weight of the Faustian decision and the heights and depths of emotion that it entails...
...Kaplan, in response to the difficulties in the text--and to the hurdle of the old English, which requires adjustment and greater concentration on the part of an audience than does the more familiar Shakespearean dialogue--combines innovative technical aspects with a rotating cast. His set consists of four 15-foot-high white screens, a white floor with a red grid and black cubes of varying sizes placed with stools around the stage. Kaplan calls his set "new wave," and, while avoiding a more traditional setting, it aids in conveying a sense of the story by its quality that avoids...
NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein American Dreams, Studs Terkel The Magazine Maze, Herbert R.Mayes -Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan -"Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene
NONFICTION: Ambition, Joseph Epstein ∙ American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell ∙ Ways of Escape, Graham Greene
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino -The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes - Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan - "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J.Liebling, Raymond Sokolov