Audiobooks by Uta Hagen

A Challenge For The Actor

Uta Hagen, one of the world's most renowned stage actresses, also taught acting for more than 40 years at the HB Studio in New York. Her first book, Respect for Acting, published in 1973, remains a best seller in print. In this brand new audio edition of her second classic book, A Challenge for the Actor, she greatly expands her thinking about acting in a work that brings the full flowering of her artistry, both as an actor and as a teacher. She raises the issue of the actor's goals and examines the specifics of the actor's techniques. She goes on to consider the actor's relationship to the physical and psychological senses. There is a brilliantly conceived section on the animation of the body and mind, of listening and talking, and the concept of expectation. But perhaps the most useful sections in this audiobook are the exercises that Uta Hagen has created and elaborated to help the actor learn his craft. The exercises deal with developing the actor's physical destination in a role; making changes in the self serviceable in the creation of a character; recreating physical sensations; bringing the outdoors on stage; finding occupation while waiting; talking to oneself and the audience; and employing historical imagination. The scope and range of Uta Hagen here is extraordinary. Her years of acting and teaching have made her as finely seasoned an artist as the theatre has produced. This audiobook is masterfully read by award-winning narrator and actor Barbara Rosenblat, and includes an excerpt from the audio edition of Uta Hagen's Sources: A Memoir. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©1991 Uta Hagen (P)

Uta Hagen (Author), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator)

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Sources: A Memoir

Uta Hagen, one of the great ladies of the American theatre wrote a deeply personal memoir of her life, from her childhood in Germany to the present. Sources is Miss Hagen’s lyrical account of the special ways love of nature is intertwined with love of art in her life, providing a rare glimpse of the off-stage life of an actress. Originally published in 1983, this book was republished in 2019 with a foreword by Uta’s daughter, Leticia Ferrer, and her grand-daughter Teresa Teuscher to whom Uta dedicated the book. Now in audio for the very first time, Sources also includes a brief biography of Uta Hagen. This audio edition is masterfully read by award-winning narrator Suzanne Toren. Produced and published by Echo Point Books & Media, an independent bookseller in Brattleboro, Vermont. ©1983, 2019 Uta Hagen Trust §

Uta Hagen (Author), Suzanne Toren (Narrator)

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Respect for Acting: Expanded Edition

Since its original publication in 1973, Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting has remained a durable classic for all students of acting. As an acting instructor at the Herbert Berghof Studio, Hagen helped to develop the talents of world-class actors like Robert DeNiro, Matthew Broderick, Gene Wilder, Amanda Peet, Austin Pendleton, Whoopi Goldberg, and more. This updated edition illuminates Hagen's original text with a new foreword written by Katie Finneran, retaining the David Hyde Pierce foreword, along with added background on HB Studio-one of the original New York performing arts training and practice spaces-and an excerpt from Hagen's autobiography SOURCES. Respect for Acting is a book for actors and audiences who understand the need for truth in the creative process. - Discover the acting book that has shaped professional theater performances for decades - Learn the history and background of Herbert Berghof Studio - Practice the craft of acting with concrete exercises and instruction on technique - Delve into the deep questions that arise when actors truly inhabit the lives of their characters

Uta Hagen (Author), Elizabeth Wiley (Narrator)

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