My acting teacher tends to drool over the students who have crying fits that turn into hyperventilating seizures and screaming matches in their scenes. It's not that it's not interesting to watch, it's just that the only time in my life I've seen people act like that is in movies about insane asylums and...in acting class. My family was more about the repressed emotion. To dramatize it I would have two actors on stage giving each other the silent treatment (a very "filled" pause with LOTS of "compression") for seven to ten years. It may not be good theater (more performance art), but it would be real...

Just for today, I can keep acting real.