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UTA HAGEN

UTA HAGEN. UTA HAGEN 1920 -2004. Award winning, German born, American based actress - stage and screen. Studied at RADA Broadway debut in Seagull 1938 Tony Awards for Country Girl and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? and Lifetime Award

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UTA HAGEN

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  1. UTA HAGEN

  2. UTA HAGEN 1920 -2004 • Award winning, German born, American based actress-stage and screen. • Studied at RADA • Broadway debut in Seagull 1938 • Tony Awards for Country Girl and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? and Lifetime Award • Esteemed acting coach – taught Robert de Niro, Liza Minelli and Al Pacino among others • Took over HB Studios in New York after her husband, Herbert Berghof died in 1990

  3. Inspiration… • "In 1947, I worked in a play under the direction of Harold Clurman. He opened a new world in the professional theatre for me. He took away my 'tricks'. He imposed no line readings, no gestures, no positions on the actors. At first I floundered badly because for many years I had become accustomed to using specific outer directions as the material from which to construct the mask for my character, the mask behind which I would hide throughout the performance. Mr. Clurman refused to accept a mask. He demanded ME in the role. My love of acting was slowly reawakened as I began to deal with a strange new technique of evolving in the character. I was not allowed to begin with, or concern myself at any time with, a preconceived form. I was assured that a form would result from the work we were doing."

  4. THE SIX STEPS TO CREATING A CHARACTER • Who am I? • What are my circumstances? • What are my relationships? • What do I want? • What are my obstacles? • How do I get what I want?

  5. WHO AM I? • What is my present state of being? • How do I perceive myself? • What am I wearing?

  6. What Are My Circumstances? • What time is it? • Where am I? • What surrounds me? • What are the immediate circumstances?

  7. What Are My Relationships? • How do I stand in relationship to the circumstances, the place, the objects, and other people related to my circumstances?

  8. What Do I Want? • What is my main objective? • What is my immediate need

  9. What Is My Obstacle? • What is in the way of what I want? • How do I overcome it? A brick wall is only there to prove how badly we want something.

  10. What Do I Do To Get What I Want? • How do I achieve my objective? • What is my behaviour? • What are my actions? • ACTION TACTIC STRATEGY

  11. HOW? X mood = doom X X shyly ATTITUDE gladly X X Take out all the script descriptions X HOW? = BY WHAT MEANS?

  12. ACTIONS ACTION = DO = ACTIVE VERBS Surrender Dismiss Ignore Comfort • Attack • Invite • Seduce • Provoke

  13. ATTACK/SURRENDER • ATTACK • Abuse Accost Assail Assault Battle Berate Blast Bombard Censure Challenge Charge Combat Criticise Denounce Dispraise Fight Impugn indict Infest Invade Knock Lash Libel Malign Maul Mug Persecute Raid Ram Savage Slander Storm Strike Tackle Vilify • SURRENDER • Abandon Discard Disown Forsake Relinquish Repudiate Sacrifice Yield

  14. INVITE/DISMISS • INVITE • Adopt Attract Beckon Embrace Welcome • DISMISS • Abolish Banish Discard Discharge Dislodge Eject Exile Expel Fire Oust Remove Sack

  15. SEDUCE/IGNORE • SEDUCE • Allure Attract Beguile Bribe Ensnare Entice Entrap Induce Lure Romance Tempt Titillate Turn Violate • IGNORE • Boycott Disobey Disregard Exclude Neglect Omit Overlook Reject Snub Spurn

  16. PROVOKE/COMFORT • PROVOKE • Aggravate Annoy Antagonise Fan Fire Galvanise Generate Harass Hector Infuriate Instigate Irk Irritate Madden Motivate Nag Needle Taunt Torment Trigger • Arouse Awaken Enkindle Excite Inspire Kindle Prod Push Raise Spark Spur Stimulate Stir Tickle Vitalise • COMFORT • Aid Allay Alleviate Appease Assuage Calm Cheer Console Disburden Ease Encourage Gladden Hearten Hug Nourish Pacify Quieten Reassure Relax Relieve Revive Rock Soothe Strengthen Sustain

  17. "Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters' actions which reveal the character in the play."

  18. REFERENCES Respect for ActingUta Hagen with Haskel Frankel foreward by David Hyde Pierce John Wiley & Sons Inc New York 1973/2004 ISBN 978-0-470-22848-7 A Challenge for the Actor Uta Hagen Scribner New York 1991 ISBN 0-684-1940-0 Actions – The Actors’ Thesaurus Marina Caldarone & Maggie Williams Nick Hern Books London 2004 ISBN 1-85459 674 8 www.imdb.com/name/nm0353467/bioaccessed April 2nd 2012 Prepared by E Darvill

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