Many people misunderstand cruel drama, thinking that it requires actors to be more crazy, more painful, and more out of control.

In fact, just the opposite.

Physical training in cruel drama is not training out of control.

But train accurately.

The more intense the stage state, the less it can rely solely on emotions.

Emotions can be draining.

The body will be hurt.

Audiences will also quickly recognize cheap exaggeration.

A truly powerful body is not a body that breaks down easily.

But a body that can control energy on the blade.

01 Train perception first, not performance

A lot of performance training begins with asking: What do you want to express?

Cruel Drama prefers to ask first: What do you feel?

Is there any weight on the soles of the feet?

Does the spine have any direction?

Where the breath gets stuck.

The sound comes out of the chest or is forced out of the throat.

The finer the body's perception, the more accurate the movements on stage will be.

Without perception, the so-called explosion is just chaos.

02 Repetition is not machinery, but approximation

Cruel drama values repetition.

Repeat an action ten times and the meaning changes.

Repeat this twenty times and the body will begin to reveal the real problem.

Repeating it to a certain point, the actor is no longer "acting out", but fighting against the action.

What the audience sees is no longer the form.

It is the true state of the body after time has consumed it.

Repetition is not for the sake of looking good.

Repetition is for approximation.

03 The sound must come out of the body

Screaming is not about being loud.

Whispering is not a low voice either.

The sound must have a physical source.

It can come from pressure in the abdomen.

Can come from vibrations in the chest.

Can come from tension in the back.

It can also come from an unnamed blockage.

If the sound is just an effect created by the throat, it will quickly turn into a performance voice.

The really stinging sounds are the sounds that the body has to make.

04 Training boundaries are more important than training extremes

In a cruel drama, actors cannot be treated as consumables.

Really serious training requires knowing boundaries.

Where is the controllable danger.

Where is the body really going to hurt.

Where is the emotional material that can enter.

Where must stop.

Cruelty without boundaries, just rough.

Only cruelty with boundaries can become a method.

05 Accurately establish the feeling of pain

The feeling of pain on stage does not depend on the actor actually being in pain.

It is established by structure.

Depend on rhythm.

By distance.

By body direction.

By the time the sound appears.

By the way the audience is forced to watch.

Therefore, the training of cruel drama is not to train people to be more like wounds.

Rather, it trains actors to be able to create the conditions for wounds to appear.

Not crazy.

Be precise.