Play:
Character:
List everything the playwright says about the character:
List everything the character says about herself:
List everything the other characters say about your character:
Super objective:
Monologue Objective:
Internal Obstacles:
External Obstacles:
List twenty ways in which you resemble the character and twenty ways
in which you differ. Ten items on the list should be ways in which you
share common experiences (given circumstances – I have a younger
brother, I grew up in a small town) and ten items should be personality
similarities/differences (I am shy, I anger easily, I am not religious, I
don’t enjoy painting. . .
Similarities Differences
Experiences Experiences
1. 1
2. 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
9 9
10 10
Personality Personality
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 5
6 6
7 7
8 8
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Hagen Questions for Monologue:
Who am I?
What time is it?
Where am I?
What surrounds me?
What are the given circumstances?
What is my relationship (to objects, people, events)?
What do I want (objective)?
What’s in my way (obstacle)?
What do I do to get what I want (tactics)
Favorite Things:
Movie:
TV Show:
Singer:
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Book:
Animal:
Article of Clothing:
Season
Place in Family
Show as a Child:
Place in Nature: