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Actor’s Analysis Chart
ACTOR’S NAME
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CHARACTER’S NAME_____________________________________________
In order to stimulate the actor into a creative stage, he must use his sources of inspiration from the GIVEN
CIRCUMSTANCES of the play. All the analysis is for the purpose of developing an organically whole
human being on the stage. The Actor must become one with the character and his playing each moment
will be the result of WHAT WOULD I DO IF I WERE THE CHARACTER WITHIN THE GIVEN
CIRCUMSTANCES?
THE GIVEN CIRCUMSTANCES:
Careful readings of the text (many times) will reveal the world of the play and the character.
1. The script is your major stimulus for inspiration
A. What do I say?
B. What do I do?
C. My relationship to other characters
1. What do other characters say about me?
2. What do I think about other characters?
3. Whom do I trust?
4. Whom do I not trust?
D. What actions does the playwright suggest?
E. What are the playwright’s comments and descriptions (stage directions) about me?
2. The world of the play and the character
A. Psychology
1. Amusements, hobbies, books, newspapers, etc.
2. Moral standards
3. Personal ambitions
4. Frustrations/chief disappointments
5. Temperament: easy-going, pessimistic, optimistic, fiery, etc.
6. Attitude toward life: rebellious, resigned, defeatist
7. Complexes, obsessions, inhibitions, superstitions
8. Personality: introvert, extrovert
9. Abilities, talents
10. Qualities (negative and positive): imagination, judgment, taste, poise
11. Energy centers, rhythms
B. Biography (search for the character’s life prior to the play’s beginning)
1. Who am I before the play begins?
2. Make a chronological chart of events prior to the opening of the play
(where and when)
3. What are the past details of your life leading you to your overall
intention in the play?
C. Environment of the play
1. Climate, time of year
2. Sensory conditions of that environment: heat, cold, stuffy, polluted
3. The setting: cramped deluxe, too clean, comfortable, attractive, ugly
4. What’s directly outside the room: more of the same, grass, a place to be free, a tighter
space
D. Physiology of the character
1. Male/Female, age, body build
2. Appearance: good-looking, over or under-weight, clean, neat, messy, uncared for
3. Defects: deformities, abnormalities, diseases, alcoholism, etc.

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