Related Clues:

• Block a punch, e.g.
• Play act
• Be hammy
• Acknowledge a stimulus
• Play to the back of the audience
• Steal the scene, say
• Act amateurishly
• Show one's feelings
• Engage in cabotinage
• Try to steal the scene, maybe
• Go too far onstage
• Play broadly
• Not just sit there
• Turn on the waterworks, maybe
• Act to excess