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- Who am I? Who is your character? Identify all the details: name/age, physical traits, education, personal opinions, likes, dislikes, fears, ethics, and beliefs.
- What time is it? The year, the season, the day, the minute. What is the significance of time?
- Where am I? Identify the country, the city/town, the neighborhood, the building, the room or the specific area of the room.
- What surrounds me? What is happening in the environment around you? Weather, landscape, people, animate/inanimate objects?
- Who Am I?
- What Time Is It?
- Where Am I?
- What Surrounds Me?
- What Are My circumstances?
- What Are My Relationships?
- What Do I Want?
- What’s in My Way?
- How Do I Get What I Want?
This is an obvious question but what answer you seek as an actor is important. It must answer the character’s name, age, education, physical traits, fears, ethics, beliefs, likes dislikes, relatives or enemies. Let’s go through them one by one: Name:First thing you must learn is the character’s name. The name of a person always tells you where he b...
The significance of time plays a key role in any story. What it does is, gives you its set of rules that you cannot break. Learn in which century or decade the story take place. Do some research on that era of the story. Look for how people dressed, how they speak, what was in trend, and technology. Familiarize yourself with that time. And time als...
The question who am I, is the most important of all 9 questions because the place in which the story takes place affects the character the most. The feel and emotions of the story come from the world it takes place. I believe the place itself acts as a character in a story. Everyone loves the sitcom friends. The actors of the series believed that t...
If you are acting for the camera it’s a great practiceto spend a few minutes just exploring the set or the location. Note the animate or inanimate objects. Play with them. Feel the furniture if it’s an interior scene. Feel the weather if it’s an exterior scene. Most of the just by exploring you will be hit with unique ideas for playing the scene. W...
Before going into a scene, you must know three things: 1. What was your previous circumstance? 2. What is your present circumstance? 3. What your future circumstance will be? Always enter into the scene with the previous circumstances. For example, if you had a big fight, you were angry, it must reflect on your current circumstance. You must still ...
When you talk about relationships in terms of acting it doesn’t mean an only relationships with other people but it also means relationships with objects and events. Relationship with people is a basic thing to learn about any character. But it is also important to learn what is your relationship with objects or events. Like in the movie Patriots D...
You must understand this question is the most important out of all Uta Hagen’s 9 questions. Even if you don’t go through the whole 9 question process and just answer this one, you will do a decent job as an actor. This question has two parts: 1. Scene objective 2. Overall objective The objective in acting important term. If you take any method acti...
This question must answer what are the obstacles that your character face? Usually, a story lays out series of obstacles during the story. You will have to list the all the obstacles in series. Best way to go about is to answer this question with objective. When you are looking for the scene objectives, you should also ask what are obstacles that s...
This question is almost summarizing all 9 questions as it gives an actor an action to do. Performance is all about doing something and to reach that step, you will have to understand the character, the place he or she is in, circumstance, then what he or she must achieve and what is stopping him or her form achieving. After comprehending all the in...
Uta Hagen’s Nine Questions. 1. Who am I? Who is your character? Identify all the details: name/age, physical traits, relatives, education, personal opinions, likes, dislikes, hobbies, fears, ethics, and beliefs. 2. What time is it? The year, the season, the day, the minute. What is the significance of time? 3.
Respect for Acting (1973) and A Challenge for the Actor (1991) have been used as textbook staples in theatre schools, universities, and conservatories across the world. In her book, Respect for Acting, Hagen outlines 9 Questions Actors Need to Ask. Themselves when preparing for a role.
May 31, 2023 · Uta Hagen’s nine questions help actors develop the granular details of their character’s backstory. The questions come from Hagen’s first book, “Respect for Acting,” though in her later ...
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Uta Hagen: “Respect for Acting”. 1. Who am I? (character-search for character’s life prior to play’s/scene’s beginning) 2. Where am I?
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Apr 11, 2021 · Asking yourself these "9 Questions" helps focus on the details of the scene, your character, and the show as a whole. Use these questions beyond the stage: prepare your next on-camera audition using these questions and you won't be struggling to understand your character.
