On How To Use Subtext In Drama Actors Performance Creation

The play "The Verdict of Independence Day" is written by John Rogan,a famous American playwright and Hollywood screenwriter.The work has received several theatre Critics Circle,Broadway Excellence Award nominations,and the John Gassner Award for American Drama.The drama tells the story of two seventeen-year-old girls,in order to prove that they are "Superman" and do some incredible behavior.In their eyes,there is no difference between killing and killing a fly.Their distorted thoughts reflect the madness of this society and trigger people’s reflection.In fact,the work itself is called judgment.Instead,it presents each character in three dimensions.However,the conclusion is drawn by the audience itself,which is not a simple question of right or wrong,but a kind of thinking extended from the play itself.There is a lot of dialogue and monologue in the play,and the correct handling of the lines,especially the correct grasp of the subtext,is crucial for the actor’s second creation,so as to create a full character.Subtext is the soul of the character image and a mirror showing the character’s personality.Subtext in dramatic language is more like the "yeast" of dramatic language,which makes the whole play more dramatic.And the accurate excavation and use of subtext will be the icing on the tapestry of a wonderful dramatic work,making the characters lifelike,the climax of language,emotion and rhythm,and the audience fully immersed in the plot.This paper focuses on three aspects to expound.First of all,this paper expounds the play "The Verdict of Independence Festival" and introduces the motivation of personal selection and graduation works.Secondly,it discusses the concept and characteristics of subtext,and explores the role of subtext in shaping characters’ images and how to dig subtext in creation by combining with the graduation drama "The Verdict of Independence Day".Finally,the author takes the graduation drama "The Verdict of Independence Day" as an example to analyze how the author deals with the subtext from the perspective of stress,pause and rhythm to express the implication of the lines.