By Uta Hagen, David Hyde Pierce, Haskel Frankel
Admire for Acting"This interesting and particular e-book approximately performing is leave out Hagen's credo, the amassed knowledge of her years spent in intimate communion along with her paintings. it truly is immediately the voicing of her exacting criteria for herself and people she [taught], and a proof of the capacity to the end." --Publishers Weekly "Hagen provides to the big corpus of titles on performing with bright dicta drawn from adventure, ability, and a feeling of non-public worthy. Her valuable asset during this remedy is her actually major mind's eye. Her 'object routines' exhibit a wealth of element with which to stimulate the coed getting ready a scene for presentation." --Library magazine "Uta Hagen's admire for appearing . . . is a comparatively small e-book. yet inside it, omit Hagen tells the younger actor approximately up to will be conveyed in print of his craft." --Los Angeles Times"There are virtually no American actors uninfluenced via Uta Hagen." --Fritz Weaver"This is a textbook for aspiring actors, yet operating thespians can revenue a lot through it. an individual with only a informal curiosity within the theater also needs to take pleasure in its behind-the-scenes flavor."--King positive aspects Syndicate
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An old friend from your home town, the superintendent, the laundryman, a parent, your agent—for each person you will present a different you. Previous circumstances and existing circumstances will bring about a different you: whether you had a good night 26 the actor or a bad night, whether it is hot or cold, whether you are in a tidy or a messy state. Even something as elementary as the clothes you wear can make you feel (and then behave) old or young, a slob or elegant, awkward or in command, snobbish or humble.
As a simple example, let me take an ashtray. On occasion, the ashtray given me by the prop man will be, under examination, exactly the sort of ashtray called for in the play. Instead of simply saying, “It’s an ashtray sitting on the table in this Greenwich Village garret,” I will see that it is tin sprayed to look like copper, probably came from the dime store, has two grooves to hold cigarettes, is shiny with a few cigarette stains in the bottom, is lightweight, and I can deal with it correctly under the given circumstances.
What’s the matter with you? ,” “It’s heavy” or whatever the current slang, we are accused of artificiality. But if we listen to our friends and relatives, and stay “regular,” when we approach plays of language—Shakespeare, T. S. ” We must learn to balk at this social dictum in order to enlarge our imagination and our use of self. ) There is a decided difference between the self-awareness that is vital to the theater artist and the self-consciousness that is ordinarily applied to the awkward or affected person.