Respect for Acting

Respect for Acting

"Respect for Acting" by actress and teacher Uta Hagen (Wiley Publishing, 1973) is a textbook used in many acting classes. Hagen's instructions and examples guide the aspiring actor through practical problems such as "How do I talk to the audience?" and "How do I stay fresh in a long run?" She advocates the actor's use of substitution in informing and shaping the action of the character the actor is playing.

Hagen later stated that she "disassociated" herself from "Respect for Acting" [Interview in playbill.com] . In a follow-up book, "Challenge for the Actor" (1991), she renamed "substitution" as "transference." Although Hagen wrote that the actor should "identify" the character they play with feelings and circumstances from their (the actor's) own life, she also makes clear that "Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected Actions, and IT IS THE CHARACTER'S "ACTIONS" WHICH REVEAL the true 'you,'" as the character in the play.

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