I need to know how to cry for a play.?

Question

I am not a crier.
I cry when I'm laughing a lot but it takes a lot for me to cry when I'm sad. Something has to be in front of my face happening or in a movie for me to cry about it, its weird.

So how can I make myself cry when I need to?

i'm the kind of person who holds in tears when i'm sad.

so i think i'll try the onion thing.

Answer 1

yeah fake tears are easy to find

Answer 2

You are suffering from the delusion that crying onstage is dramatically effective.

You don't ever need to know how to cry. If the play says that you have to cry, it's not a good play, period. You are an actor; the audience knows, on whatever level, that if you cry you are not really crying 'for real'. Your tears will always be actor's tears, and therefore unreal.

If there is a speech, and it's really emotive, then sometimes delivering it without tears can be the most tear-jerking thing imaginable. If the script just commands you to cry without saying anything, then take it from me - it's not a good script.

There is already enough dignity and art and wonder to the actor's art, without the silly idea that fake tears mean anything. If you try to manufacture tears, the audience will notice you doing so and will resent it. If you convey the sadness some other way, they will probably get it and will be in the space of the play.

In any case, 'crying' is not a trick one can learn.

Answer 3

You can buy fake tears.

Or you can think of the worst thing that's happened to you, or try to remember a tragic part of a movie.

The way I fake cry is first, by thinking of something really sad, then yawning, and then the tears come. Lol. Or sometimes I can fake cry as soon as I yawn.

Answer 4

I had to cry for a play I was in recently. It wasn't easy, and it took practice.
This is going to sound cheesy, but if you want to REALLY cry, then you need to really feel sad at the moment. Which means you'll need to know why the character is sad, and find a way to relate to that sadness.

Answer 5

Auroriali has a good suggestion...think os a scene from a movie, or a song. I always cry when I here the song in the opening scene of "Sense and Sensibility", or from "Out of Africa".

Think of any good or bad thing that made you cry in the past.

Answer 6

Cut a raw white or brown onion. Rub the tips of fingers in it really good. When it is time to act put a cuped hand up to your eye usually does it. Now cry cry cry.... (smile)

Answer 7

Look for fake tears. They are normally sold in stores that sell costumes and things like that.

Answer 8

think of titanic!

or better yet buy an onion and fake the drama