Respect for Acting, 2nd Edition

by Uta Hagen; With: Haskel Frankel; Foreword by: David Hyde Pierce

• ISBN13: 9780470730171
• ISBN10: 047073017X
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Respect for Acting "This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she [taught], and an explanation of the means to the end." --Publishers Weekly "Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill, and a sense of personal and professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her 'object exercises' display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation." --Library Journal "Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting . . . is a relatively small book. But within it, Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft." --Los Angeles Times "There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by Uta Hagen." --Fritz Weaver "This is a textbook for aspiring actors, but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor." --King Features Syndicate

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

The Actor.

Introduction

Concept

Identity

Substitution

Emotional Memory

Sense Memory

The Five Senses

Thinking

Walking and Talking

Improvisation

Reality

The Object Exercises.

Introduction

The Basic Object Exercise

Three Entrances

Immediacy

The Fourth Wall

Endowment

Talking to Yourself

Outdoors

Conditioning Forces

History

Character Action

Part 3

Introduction

First Contact with the Play

The Character

Circumstances

Relationship

The Objective

The Obstacle

The Action

The Rehearsal

Practical Problems

Communication

Style

Epilogue

Index

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