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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsEditor’s Note by Jesse Feiler xiii
Foreword by Katie Finneran xv
Foreword by David Hyde Pierce xix
Acknowledgments xxiii
Part One The Actor Introduction 3
1 Concept 11
2 Identity 22
3 Substitution 34
4 Emotional Memory 46
5 Sense Memory 52
6 The Five Senses 60
7 Thinking 65
8 Walking and Talking 69
9 Improvisation 73
10 Reality 75
Part Two The Object Exercises Introduction 81
11 The Basic Object Exercise 91
12 Three Entrances 95
13 Immediacy 102
14 The Fourth Wall 106
15 Endowment 112
16 Talking to Yourself 119
17 Outdoors 124
18 Conditioning Forces 129
19 History 134
20 Character Action 139
Part Three The Play and the Role Introduction 145
21 First Contact with the Play 147
22 The Character 152
23 Circumstances 158
24 Relationship 165
25 The Objective 174
26 The Obstacle 180
27 The Action 184
28 The Rehearsal 192
29 Practical Problems 201
30 Communication 213
31 Style 217
Epilogue 222
The Studio Story, by Uta Hagen 224
Address to the Austrian Academy, by Herbert Berghof 239
Sources, by Uta Hagen 244
About Uta Hagen 252
About Haskel Frankel 254
Index 255
