In High School, our Drama class decided to do a whole 120 min performance on the various types of abuse — physical, emotional, verbal, familial, sexual — we really covered it all in a composite of skits created by the students. No one questioned why the students chose the topics they wrote about and performed or why they knew such topics intimately at 15 & 16 years old. But as a result, we learned how to fall to the ground when theatrically slapped or punched. You tuck your leg, on the side you’re falling down on, behind your other leg and fall on the meaty part of your thigh and the back of your upper arm so you don’t break anything.
