Uta Hagen's Substitution Method for Actors | Acting Techniques | exercises to do at home alone

Do you take classes??

is substation difer to miesner?

Thank you so much for sharing such information about substitution, finally I'll found this video to understand this method. Thanks 🙏

Thank you so much for sharing What I understand that it is really Close to Chubbuck but Helpful

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I had the good fortune to study with Miss Hagen at the time Respect For Acting came out in 1972. She used to have all of the new students come to a lecture of what goes into good acting and how to strive to achieve it. Then she would give her demonstration of her system of exercises, each dealing with a separate technique to focus on ways to become more alive, more connected to the truthful involvement in the life of the play. I was present at the last Demonstration. Thereafter, if a student had a question, she would say, "Read the book."

But the questions never stopped. Finally, she got her copy out and realized that, son of a gun, she had left some things out. This was in the mid-80s.

Okay, only one thing to do. She wrote another acting book, which I like even better, called "Challenge For the Actor."

I believe that I am the only student enrolled at both eras (with a break in between), a witness to the tweaks and changes between the two books. As she would finish writing a chapter, she would bring it into class and read it to us. Sitting right next to her, I recorded her, with her permission.

As for Substitution, Miss Hagen used the term "Transference", which better describes the subtle method of introducing little investigations of like personal experiences into the preparation and also performance of the character once the show opens (so that the role never becomes static or stale). Substitution sounds more like surgery than movement, and everything rather is about forward-moving action and expectations.

Besides, as Bill Hickey, a fellow teacher at HB Studio, and devoted student, like Miss Hagen, of Herbert Berghof, would say, "You can only add, you can never subtract."

There is always a flutter of the heart.