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UTAHAGEN- THESIXSTEPS

L. WHO AM I?
A). What is my present state of being?
B). How do I perceive myself?
C). What am I wearing?

2. WHAT ARE THE CIRCUMSTANCES?


A). What time is it? (The year, the season, the day? At what time
d_oesmy selected life begin?)
B). Where am I? (Io what city, neighborhood. building, and room
do { find myself? Or in what landscape?)
C). \Vhat surrounds me? (The immediate landscape? The weather?
The condition of the place and the nature of the objects in it?)
D). What are the immediate circumstances? (What bas just
happened, is happening? What do I expect or plan to happen next and
later on?)

3. WHATARE MY RELATIONSHIPS?
: How do I stand in relationship to the circumstances, the place, the
objects, and the other people related 10 my circumstances?

4. WHAT no I WANT?
What is my main objective? My immediate need or objective?

5. WHAT IS MY OBSTACLE?
What is in the way of what I want? How do 1 overcome it?

DOI DOTOGET WHAT I w ANT?


6. WHAT
How can I achieve my objective? What's my behavior? What are my
actions?
TERMS
FromRespectfor Actina
by UtaHagen

I. SUPER OBJEC)JVE-The purpose for which you carry out your physical
&<:dons want in thecourseof the
and sceneobjectives.What doeatbecba.racter
play?

l. SCFlffi OBJEC:j]VE To realize a clearly defined SUPER OBJECTIVE through


a logical sequence of acti011s.("I need", "I want")

3. DEAI-A 1-t bepos when under a diff=nt set of circum,w,ces when "an
immediate objective" sets in. It ends when lhat objective bu suoceeded or failed
and new circumstancessetin.

4. SUB{XlNSC!OUS OBJFCI'JYES - The "motivation• or "why" of the consci0111


o~orwant

5. QBSTAC!f,-Wbal's in the way ofwbatl want?

6, THEFOURTH
WAJJ,-To build a private fourth wall anchored to something
that cm really be soen and is really there and ia scondary lO ovcrythin,gelse on
stage.

7. CJRQ/MSTANCES The obliption II> find everytltina given yoo by the author
in tbe stage directions about lime and plaoc, u well as in the dialogue of the play
or bidden ,,,,de,rneatb the wotdo of the cbaracu,n, to find out not just what
happen,.bu.tunder it b!PPMI
whatcircum11ance1

1::lQ]E:_Don'tconfuse and obligation with a desire. Actions which result when I


ball to clean houseare totally different from thosewhea I ~ to clean bou.se.
Always defme your naJ objectives with oeecb,wants and desires. 'Whatyou~ to
do may be an~ to what you~

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