Uta Hagen Techniques of Acting | Acting for Actors | Online Acting Class

Uta Hagen's Techniques explained in Hindi by Happy Ranajit an alumni of National School of Drama and now a guest faculty for several Acting institutes including NSD. This lecture is by Happy Ranajit based on Uta Hagen's book "Respect for Acting".

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Uta Hagen who was an acting teacher and a Broadway actor who developed an acting technique that built on Stanislavsky’s System. Before Uta Hagen was a big-deal teacher, she was a big-deal actor. At the young age of 18, Hagen—who was born in Germany but raised stateside—made her Broadway debut in Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull.” Her portrayal of Nina had critics raving, and it became clear that the teen was going to leave a mark on American theater.
Thrust into the Broadway big leagues, Hagen was forced to develop a degree of discipline to effectively relive the naturalistic stylings of Chekhov’s famously subtext-heavy writing. This experience gave Hagen the impetus and confidence to codify her technique for conveying behavior naturalistically onstage.
Hagen played some of the most iconic roles during a golden age for the theatrical canon—including the title role in “Saint Joan,” Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Desdemona in “Othello,” and Martha in the premiere of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” If it weren’t for Hagen’s unjust ensnarement in the Red Scare of the midcentury when McCarthyism hit the scene, she likely would’ve taken Hollywood by storm. But because of Los Angeles blacklisting, she dug her roots into the New York stage and began a practice of observing, writing, and teaching.

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