#index #acting # Uta Hagen's Nine Questions 1. **Who am I?** - Who is your character? - Identify all the details: name/age, physical traits, relatives, education, personal opinions, likes, dislikes, hobbies, fears, ethics, and beliefs. 1. **What time is it?** - The year, the season, the day, the minute. - What is the significance of time? 2. **Where am I?** - Identify the country, the city/town, the neighborhood, the building, the room, the specific area of the room. 3. **What surrounds me?** - What is happening in the environment around you? - Weather, landscape, people, animate/inanimate objects. 4. **What are the given circumstances?** - Identify events in the past, present, future. - What has happened, what is happening, what is going to happen? 5. **What are my relationships?** - This is more than your relationship to other people. - Think about your relationship to objects, characters, and events. 6. **What do I want?** - What do you want immediately? - What does the character want overall? 7. **What is in my way?** - What are the obstacles to getting what you want 8. **What do I do to get what I want?** - What actions do you take (both physically and verbally)? What tactics?