David Kaplan directs Tennessee Williams’ “Ten Blocks…” in Ghana

David Kaplan is directing Tennessee Williams’ Ten Blocks on the Camino Real in Accra, Ghana in early May 2016. The production features actors from Abibigroma, the National Theater of Ghana. Ten Blocks will be performed in English but adapted to Ghanian culture. Ten Blocks will be staged in public spaces in Accra, Ghana.

David Kaplan is curator and co-founder of the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, now in its eleventh year. He is the author of Tenn Years: Tennessee Williams on Stage, the Williams biography Tennessee Williams in Provincetown and editor of the Tennessee Williams centennial collection of essays, Tenn at One Hundred. He has written two series of college textbooks: Five Approaches to Acting and Shakespeare, Shamans, and Show Biz.

Kaplan has staged Tennessee Williams plays worldwide: Suddenly, Last Summer in Russia in Russian, Ten Blocks on the Camino Real in Uruguay in Spanish, and The Eccentricities of a Nightingale in Hong Kong in Cantonese. In 2008 he directed the world premieres of Williams The Day on Which a Man Dies in Chicago and The Dog Enchanted by the Divine View in Boston. At the New Orleans Tennessee Williams Festival he’s staged Williams The Traveling Companion, The Chalky White Substance, and The Hotel Plays.