Five Approaches to Acting Series

By David Kaplan

	The Collected Series: Five Approaches to Acting by David Kaplan paperback, 391 pages $49.95 ISBN 978-1-60182-180-5
	Now available from Hansen Publishing Group. Purchase all five approaches in a complete volume or purchase them singly.

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:

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. 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.