The director would describe the play in ten minutes, but the actors would have two hours to perform it. They had to rely on their accumulated acting experience, as well as what they had gleaned from their everyday lives. Performance of this sort is true "living theater."
導演說戲 10 分鐘，演員卻得演完兩個小時，憑藉的就是長期累積的經驗和平日所記、所學，這種即興演出稱做「演活戲」。