What is the best way to get into character for a play?

Question

I am an amateur actress. Never had any acting experience before. I have to play a woman who just found out she is pregnant and is nervous about telling her husband since neither of them are ready for it..financially or emotionally. How would you recommend to get into character? And if your gonna say go get pregnant then dont bother to answer. I need a genuine answer. Thanks!

Answer 1

Have you never been nervous before?
IF so think about all the facial expressions you made everything you felt...bring it back strong into your memory.
IF not you need to do some homework to find a movie where someone acted nervous about giving information...
WATCH IT learn how one acts when nervous.
Things that people do when nervous...
Stutter...
"Dear...uh...I ... I uh ... have something to say...."
THEY play with their hands and AVOID eye contact.
WATCH a TOP drama soap opera Like DAYS OF OUR LIVES, GENERAL HOSPITAL
they all have someone about to give some secret...
IN FACT watch DAYS
Sammie is about to deliver some news to Austin, again, she really KNOWS NERVOUS acting try that...
Do it over in front of a mirror try to have someone you can trust for honesty to spot check you for realism.
SOME ONE who knows.
Practice just the emotional faces and body language first then add them to your lines...
Learn to cry by remembering something sad...
RECALLING your emotions or studying other people's reactions too...
Watch people, LEARN.
Mimic...
GOOD LUCK...or as the say..
BREAK A LEG!

Answer 2

There are a couple of ways.

Know your character. Read her lines, her dialogue. Study them. Who is she? What motivates EVERY thing she says and does? She has to have a motivation, else she wouldn't do or say the things she does. What motivates reaction to her by others? Know her in the instance of each line. Know her in the instance of the play. Know her in her broader life - before the play takes place, who is she afterwards?

Research the circumstances. Talk to someone who has been in that situation. What is pregnancy? What are the experiences - each week, each trimester, each moment? What happens, what do you have to plan for in the pregnancy and once the baby is born. What is involved financially? What does it take for a married couple to make ends meet? Rent, utilities, food, transportation, clothes, hygenic needs, extras, insurance, etc. What does a baby add? Medically, diapers, clothes, food, toys, basic care. What is the prospective cost of raising a child?

Search within yourself. What things have you been nervous about? What events have been life changing? Have you ever felt like you didn't know the future and were scared and excited but not quite ready and not able to control anything? Like your life was spinning away from you? Find a connection to her experiences - use truths that are common to both of you, even without shared experiences.


There needs to be honesty in acting. To be honest, you need to find the truths that connect you and her, the truth within her and yourself. Play on those!

Break a leg! :o)

Answer 3

Method Acting is the term given to the way a lot of good actors get into character. It is taking on a personna totally. Imagine what it would be like to be that age, to be pregnant, and to be nervous about telling someone - someone who SHOULD care, but who may not. Imagine the trepidation, the anxiety, and translate that into your body movement, eye contact (or lack of it) and even the way you speak. Let the actions tell the story of the type of person you are.

Answer 4

each and all the solutions in the previous me are great so i'm unlikely to reproduction them. including on, despite if, I advise doing some writing. %. a situation, some thing your character is smitten by or some thing nicely-known which includes relatives, acquaintances, pastimes, etc, and write approximately them on your characters voice using first individual. In different words, write your individual monologue ;) . some thing else i locate very helpful is to understand the little issues on the subject of the character: her well-known nutrition, relationships, well-known previous cases. They talk volumes on the subject of the guy themselves. in case you won't be in a position of locate those issues, don't be above making them up. keep in mind that whilst your potraying a precise individual, you're additionally examining the guy on your individual way. don't be so caught up and catching each little bit of realism which you forget approximately the paintings. place concentration on some thing you sense is important on the subject of the character. boost. desire this helps and sturdy success!

Answer 5

Well the best thing to do is research your character's history or make it up. Is she an only child, does her husband hit her, etc? If you have a back story you should be able to react better.

Maybe if you can interview an expectant mother and see what her fears are.

I definitely think you're on the right track.

Answer 6

Identify the emotion she's feeling--nervous, fear, etc.

See if you can remember a situation in your life that's similar to that, like a time when you had to tell your parents something that you did, or you did something wrong at school and had to go to the office.

Find that emotion in yourself, and then apply it when you are playing that scene.

Answer 7

You have to characterize your character first. Think of how she walks, how she talks, any nervous habits she has, etc. Then you just have to incorporate each of these one at a time. Try walking around like your character, then just talk like her for a minute.
For that character, I would decide how bold she is. If she's nervous but brave and ready to tell her husband, I would characterize her accordingly. Like, very regal and just BOLD. Ya dig? I'm terrible at explaining.

Answer 8

that's a though one! you're a woman and being a mother is something very important. no man can ever understand that :) so you can go two ways (I can see no more):
either you want the baby and you hope the man to say "it's ok, darling, we'll sort things out
either you don't want the baby and you proove your point

may you find this helpful!

Answer 9

I'd say, Visualize the process, and the outcome you want.

Answer 10

Practice the line and feel as if you were that person yourself.