(theater) Exaggerated speech or gestures used for emphasis during a performance.
1977,Drama: The quarterly theatre review, numbers124-131, page16:
In my concentrated week at Stratford I found that, although as a theatregoer for decades I could not help marking what the old actors called 'points' now and again,[…]
2014, Amy Lehman,Victorian Women and the Theatre of Trance, page21:
The nineteenth century acting technique of makingpoints was encouraged by the dramaturgy of the melodramas which dominated the stage. The style was in fact difficult to avoid in many popular plays.
