A Challenge for the Actor by Uta Hagen Part 2

I have read the second half of "A Challenge for the Actor" by Uta Hagen and have learned a lot more about acting and my craft. The second half of the book was all about exercises and things you could do to work on certain aspects of acting and characterization.

Most of the exercises had to do with being able to enter your character and not think too much about the character and just react like your character would. The exercises are all about not falling into any planned structure of acting because that is when it becomes too planned and unnatural. This is something that I worry that I do sometimes. Sometimes I worry that I think too much about what a character SHOULD be and what they are SUPPOSED to do. This is when you fall into unnatural movements. What I need to learn to do is just take on my character and just react to things. I will take what I learned from Uta Hagen's book and I will now be thinking a lot more about my character and not falling into the structured trap of acting that comes with doing what you are SUPPOSED to do. I have to start just feeling and reacting and with that, I will be able to act freely without any traps and blocks.

With what I learned this semester I know that I am more ready to enter the world of theatre then I was before the semester began. I am ready to start training with experience in roles.