can someone help me and teach me how to cry on stage when acting?????????????

Answer 1

G'day hipsdontlie,

Thank you for your question.

If you are acting, you should be showing the emotions that the character is feeling. If her mother just died, you should think how you would feel if your mother died. You need to feel the characters feelings and show it to the audience. It doesn't matter if you cry if you convey the feeling of sadness to the audience.

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Regards

Answer 2

Since this is on stage, you don't need to actually cry -- all those tears and the subsequent runny nose will only be an annoyance anyway -- so what you need to do is perform the physical motions you make when crying. Think about how the character would cry and how that would appear to an outsider. Do they take big sobs or do a little shudder? Loudly bawling, or quietly sniffling? Are they crying because they're angry about something or because they're sad? Why are they sad? There's a difference between crying because a family member died and because you've had a really crappy day, and you need to convey that with your posture, facial expression, gestures and breath control. Also realize that while it is a powerful device, the crying isn't dialogue, so it's also a transitional device, going from one event to your character's response and subsequent actions to the consquences of her actions.

Answer 3

I think the most important factor in a realistic crying scene is that it has to be the character crying. Really know your character and empathize with the situation that makes the character cry. Think about the impact of events on that character's future, hopes, and dreams. Feel the world crashing down on your character and cry as that person... not as you. If you need something to help you, try putting pressure on your tear glands before you go on stage to prep them. But don't get half way into the most intense scene in your play, then jerk yourself out of character to cry about some imagined event in your own life. The audience will notice. If the events in the play weren't devastating enough to produce tears, the script or director wouldn't call for you to cry.

Answer 4

One form of acting is the development of recall. You don't necessarily need to 'cry' when you are on stage...only resemble that you are crying. An important concept is that there are traits that people exhibit when they cry, ie., they sob, they scream, they slump over...this is also dependent upon the character that you are playing and the situation that they are in. You do not literally have to shed tears. If you exhibit characteristics that are FAMILIAR with the character's situation...people will understand. You want to persuade your audience that you are crying for a specific reason...you want your audience to try and understand your pain, frustration, anguish, selfishness...you want them to be either for or against your character. WHY is the character crying? Are they sad for selfish reasons, a child of theirs had died, happy crying, crying out of frustration or anger, etc.? When you know and understand this...you need to seek out how people within this peculiar situation 'act' when they cry.

Facial expressions...movement of the muscles in the face are very important within crying. Putting the hand on the eyes...putting your face against someones shoulder or chest...wiping your sleeve across your eyes...all looks from far away like you are crying.

Answer 5

How To Cry On Stage

Answer 6

wen i wana fake cry i think about the person i just noe i cannot cAnNoT CANNOT! be without, generally, my bestest bestest friend ever Luis. i think about him dying *God please forbid that from ever happening* and then i start to cry automatically. STay silent, try to forget everything, and just make a picture in ur head that whoever u care about so much is in a casket right in front of u, and u never even got to say goodbye. i noe wen i think about that i cant just start crying immedietly. and since ur acting, try to go along with ur image. Scream stuff (of at least scream it in ur head since u cant interupt ur play) like "why?! god why did u do this?! do leave me!!! come back!!! i want him/her back!!! no!!! please!!!" yea it really helps. it always works for me, maybe it'll work for u.


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Answer 7

Imagine yourself in that particular position in real life. A good actor can pull up a tear in a New York minute.

Answer 8

Put your hands close together and pinch one of them really hard and think of something sad (the sad image should be planned beforehand, not generated impromptu). also on a stage, it shouldn't be THAT important.

Answer 9

Think of things that would make you sad or things that happened to you that did. Something like your dog you had since a pup got ran over and you seen it happen.

Answer 10

Think about the last time you cried for real. Let the emotion take you away. You can't fake it so you have to remember a sad time or the last time you cried.