Uta Hagen Study guide

What is substitution?

• When an actor relates a similar experience from their life to their character

• the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a fictional character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television

• part of the stage projecting past the curtain line toward the audience.

• process of starting and stopping vowel and consonant sounds.

What is transference?

• ability to form mental images or concepts that are not actually present in reality. A necessary component of theater, utilized by actors and the audience

• body chambers where sound vibrates; throat, mouth, nasal cavity & sinus cavities.

• When an actor relates a direct experience or emotion from their life to a character

• 'remembering how an action or object felt, looked, smelled, sounded or tasted

What is specificity?

• gliding from one pitch level to another. Can change the meaning of words.

• Actors rehearse with the specific that they would use in the final performance and visualize objects when looking into audience or blank wall

• ability to form mental images or concepts that are not actually present in reality. A necessary component of theater, utilized by actors and the audience.

• Being specific

What is Authenticity?

• place a prop on stage before the show so that it is available when the script calls for it.

• make up dialogue and action as you go; usually guided by an idea, theme, or topic. Acting without rehearsal.

• quickly begin a speech without allowing a pause between the first words of the speech and the cue

• Actors fully utilize props, costumes, or even architectural features of a venue to authenticate action

What is preparation?

• Actors rehearsing significantly to develop authentic behavior and preform a role fluently

• producing the sounds of words

• conflict in a scene gets worse and/or more complicated.

• sections of the stage, named for their relation to the audience

Which contains the proper answers for

Who am I?

• A photo

• The name

• All relevant details from age and name, to physical traits, education, and beliefs

• Every detail given

Which contains a reasonable answer for

What time is it?

• 3:00

• Depending on the scene, the most relevant measure of time can be the era, the season, the day, or even the specific minute

• The time you are seeing/reading the scene

• Military time

What is an appropriate answer for the question

Where am I?

• The answer contains where or why you are seeing/reading the scene

• The answer conveys the country, town, neighborhood, room, or even the specific part of the room

• At the movie theater

What is the correct answer for

What surrounds me?

• Whatever is outside of the scene and auidence

• The acting director

• Characters can be surrounded by anything from weather to furnishings, landscape, or people

• The people in the audience during the scene

What are the given circumstances?

• What happened before you saw the scene that day

• Include what has happened, what will happened and what will happen to a character

• What happened after you saw the scene