Uta Hagen 9 Questions

 Uta Hagen 9 questions

1. Who am I? Characters name, Hope, 25, average height, college-educated, the defined features of a young person at the metaphorical climax of their life the top of the hill just before they head down. Typical college student opinions fear the future and accept their adulthood fully, confused about their purpose, still grasping to return to a time that was easier to control. Longing to satisfy a nagging twitch in the back of their mind, inspired by the melancholic and nostalgic longing of returning to the empty promises of their small hometown.

2. What Time Is It? It is 9 o clock, which is important in the show as this is the exact time the northern lights appear and is the time of night where everything seems to go down. It is the height of winter, and the snow has melted the town into a landscape straight out of a hallmark movie. It's the time of the year where everyone is either celebrating family, friends, and fulfillment, and everyone else is struggling to get out of bed in the morning, constantly reminded of what they don't have. 

3. Where am I? Hope is on a porch outside the childhood house of a lost love, in their hometown of Almost, Maine, a picturesque small village in the middle of nowhere in Northern Maine. 

4. What surrounds me? It is currently snowing pretty hard, in a way that while heavy makes everything feels peaceful and quiet, and the time of night where the cold bleach-white snow contrast with the night sky, full of an eery inky blackness. The house is on a road at the top of some rolling hills overlooking a potatoes farm and some woods, with the town proper just beyond, seen in the distance of the landscape.

5. What are the given circumstances? Hope, in an act of desperation and bad decision making, abandoned his classes in New York City a week early and drove through the day and night to his hometown, to confront the one that got away. An old, high school relationship, ended in a flurry of immature actions and mind-bogglingly unnecessary arguments, and things were left in bad blood. But, as the years have passed, the feeling of that first love never left the back of Hope's mind, and freshly out of a different also messy relationship, Hope found himself longing for the simplicity and ignorance of his childhood, when the world was still small and he hadn't yet realized the empty promises of his future. His decision to go and meet back up with this lost love was more or less a call for help. With the weight of all his anxiety and fear and insecurity holding him down, He hopes for a movie moment. A beautiful heart to heart with his young love, in which he confesses his feelings and they confess theirs and his life begins anew with a love re-sparked and the loneliness dispelled. Instead, he will find the truth he has been running away from, both the young love and himself are gone, and what remains are different people, grown-ups. His childhood is gone, and now it is up to him to move on and learn to deal with his stuff just like everyone else. When faced with this truth, he reminisces on the past, and his longing for a return to what he imagines to be his golden years is what the monologue keys in on. 

6.  What are my relationships? Hope has an old beat suitcase that has faithfully served him since he left for college, and he is speaking to a man he thinks is a stranger, being unusually honest, unbeknownst to him the stranger is actually his lost love.

7. What do I want? Hope wants to have his delusions fulfilled, that the rose-tinted frames of which he is looking back on his past can become his present reality if he could only re-embrace what he has outgrown, but doesn't want to outgrow. Secretly hope wants to be told that it's all going to be all right and that things can be easy again. 

8. What is in my way? Hope needs someone else to tell him this because he cannot convince himself, so he is trying to reach out to his lost love in the hope's that they will be the person that can do this. What also stands in his way is his inability to see how much they both have outgrown each other, as well as how he cannot go back to his town in the spiritual way he seeks.

9. What do I do to get what I want? Hope drives to His hometown and searches fervently for his lost love, hoping that they will appear and be exactly the person he needs. 


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