Hedda Gablers (Questions)

Hedda Gabler (Questions)

Uta Hagen was a very well respected practitioner and was born in Germany and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. She had a theory when it came to characterization called the nine questions which was adapted from Stanislavsky theory.

The Questions:

1. Who am I?
2. What time is it?
3. Where am I?
4. What surrounds me?
5. What are the given circumstances?
6. What is my objective?
7. What is the obstacle?
8. What am i going to do to get what i want?
9. What is my super objective?

As i am playing Hedda in the last scene of act 3 i answered the questions in character and as follows:

1. I am Hedda a 29 year old woman described as beautiful, I am recently married to a man that bores me and also have recently moved into a home that is too grand for my tasted. I am a generals daughter and a cold, bored, trapped woman. I am petite and my childhood can be described as a lonely time.
2. In my scene it is early morning and autumn in the late 19th century, i imagine it being those few hours just after sunrise. The leaves on the trees are turning a different color.
3. I am in my drawing room with Thea and Loevborg in the new house that my husband has bought for me but mentally i am far away and not living this trapped enclosed life. The only thing that i feel close to in this room is my gun the relationship i have to the gun is the closest thing ill ever come to love and/or adoration of something/someone.
4. I am surrounded by all the furniture in my drawing room such as suitcases as we have recently come back from our honeymoon, also by alcoholic beverages and manuscripts and chairs that are still on the tough side as they are not well used. I am surrounded by people who do not really know me at all. I have no relationship to the things around me - no fascination.It bores me and is simply a means to an end to make Tesman think i actually care...when i do not.
5. In the previous scene I have spoken to Judge Brack and found out that he is a lot more dangerous than he looks furthermore i have the manuscript and n-one but me knows what i plan to do with it. In the scene i find out what Eilert is planning to do and encourage him as i know that it is something i too dream of. Of making it beautiful.
6. In the scene my objective changes throughout however towards the beginning it is simply to listen to Eilert and Thea and react accordingly however as Thea laves i begin to play with Eilert and act oblivious in terms of his manuscript and what he thinks has happened to it. I later go on to pouring out anger and hatred and everything i have felt even longing into the destroying of the manuscript. I also think my objective is to make Eilert uncomfortable and to get rid of him.
7. A few things are standing in the way of some of my objectives, one being Thea as Eilert would not want to leave if she is their in addition he and she seem to seek comfort from each other and myself which means that this will prevent them from leaving.
8. I am willing to make both the character turn against each other or in this scene watch as it unfolds by itself and react accordingly, also wrap them and trap them in a false sense of comfort and understanding.
9. My super objective in the whole play (i believe) is to feel more free, to add some excitement to my life and escape this confinement i seem to ave found myself in.