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    Uta Hagen developed a series of questions for actors to help them deeply understand their character and the circumstances of the scene. The questions cover key details about a character including their identity, time and place of the scene, relationships, objectives, and obstacles. Answering these questions allows an actor to inhabit the perspective of their character.

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    Uta Hagen’s Questions for Actors


    Who am I/Who is your character?
    Identify all the details including:

    ● Name/age
    ● Physical traits
    ● Family
    ● Enemies
    ● Likes/dislikes
    ● Hobbies
    ● Fears
    ● Religious beliefs

    What time is it?

    ● Year
    ● Season
    ● Day
    ● Minute

    What is the significance of time?

    Where am I?

    ● Country
    ● City/town
    ● Room

    What surrounds me? What is happening in the


    environment around you?

    ● Weather
    ● People
    ● Animate/inanimate objects
    What are the given circumstances?

    ● Events in the past, present, and future.


    ● What has happened
    ● What is happening,
    ● What is going to happen?

    What are my relationships?

    ● Objects
    ● Characters
    ● Events

    What do I want?

    ● What do you want immediately?


    ● What does the character want overall?
    What’s in my way?
    ● What are the obstacles to getting what
    you want?
    ● What do I do to get what I want?
    ● What actions do you take?
    Physically/Verbally

    Can
    you
    answ
    er
    these
    quest
    ions
    about
    your
    chara
    cter?

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