Uta Hagen

Women, before Sunday, I want you to take a cold shower. Stay in it at least five minutes. Close your eyes. Think about all the sensations, the cold, the smell, what you want to do, but can't. Use this to recreate the rainy weather before Cohen's meeting.
Acting Techniques from the Masters
Handout Dr. Mary Shuttler’s University of Northern Colorado
Uta Hagen OBJECT EXERCISES
1) Basic Object Exercise
Recreate 2 minutes of your life. Pinpoint physical and psychological sensations.
Recreate as if it’s happening for the first time. result:discipline and tests selection and patience.
2) 3 Entrances
What did I JUST do, what am I doing right NOW, what’s the first thing I want?
3) Immediacy
Fight to prevent anticipation to it’s happening now. Hunt for something you lost or mislaid; high stakes. ex. key missing and no one has an extra. Give full attention to the search
4) 4th Wall
Telephone call based on 2 minute exercise. Pick a real call; see objects (primary and secondary.
Rehearse 10 times; no need for exact words.
5) Endowment
Since can’t always be real, get a cool cup of water and believe it’s hot, steaming coffee.
Find 3 tangible objects to endow with physical properties which would otherwise control
you. Must belong to a complete and logical set of circumstances. Use a variety; not all “taste” for ex. How you handle each object tells a story. Still use the 4 th wall.
6) Talking to Self
To gain control over circumstances. Talk to self when make lists, bored, compliment self, say what you should have said out loud. Decide physical task; contact inner and outer objects, then verbalize.
7) Outdoors
Use sense memory to create your outdoors. exercise: bench and briefcase at subway; waiting;
Flip inner and outer; primary to secondary objects.
8) Conditioning Forces
Many circumstances cause behavior. Set up simple exercise and change the conditions.
ex. getting ready for a party but you can’t wake your sis.
9) History
Pick a character from a play; log all about time, place... then play character doing a simple task.
10) Character Action
Put 2 characters from a or 2 different plays from around the same time into a different event.
Am I killing you guys?