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Uta Thyra Hagen (12 June 1919 – 14 January 2004) was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee , who called her "a profoundly truthful actress."
Although Hagen wrote that the actor should "identify" the character they play with feelings and circumstances from their (the actor's) own life, she also makes it clear that "Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveals the true 'you'," as the ...
Ruth Gordon: Actress, writer; Shirley Graham: Musician; writer; founding member of Sojourners for Truth and Justice [5] Uta Hagen: Actress, teacher [6] Lillian Hellman: Playwright, author [7] Rose Hobart: Actress; board member, Screen Actors' Guild [8] Judy Holliday: Actress [9] Lena Horne: Singer, actress [10] Marsha Hunt: Actress [11] Donna ...
The original cast featured Uta Hagen as Martha, Arthur Hill as George, Melinda Dillon as Honey, and George Grizzard as Nick. It was directed by Alan Schneider. Subsequent cast members included Henderson Forsythe, Eileen Fulton, Nancy Kelly, Mercedes McCambridge, and Elaine Stritch.
Hagen's opinion (backed up by conversations with Brecht himself and the actress who was directed by him in the original production of Mother Courage) was that, for the actor, Brecht always intended it to be about the character's subjective reality—including the direct audience addresses. The very structure of the play was enough to accomplish ...
Parks continued working for social justice throughout the course of her long life, authoring two memoirs, receiving two dozen honorary university doctorates, and winning both the Presidential ...
Two years after the death of Stephen “tWitch” Boss, his wife Allison Holker gives a barefaced look at her grief in new book, “This Far."
Frances McDormand won best actress at Sunday’s Academy Awards for portraying Fern, a woman who takes to the road after the plant in her small-town closes down, in “Nomadland.” It’s ...