This research was in the subject of authoritarianism from the performing roles of the actors in Thai drama: 1) To study the role-play of power for the actors in Thai drama; and 2) To study the use of power characteristics in Thai drama. This research was the documentary with the following steps: 1) Study documents and video media from TV play in the title name of Rakluang in the Club Friday Series from channel 25; and 2 Use the content analysis to arrange the story and present it in descriptive details. According to the results, it found: 1.2) characteristics of the role-play of power for the actors in Thai drama; 1.1) the using of power through verbal language is not the from directing power from the actors, except for when it is from the writers of play; 1.2) the using of power through non-verbal language was comprised of 7 attributes, namely, 1.2.1) faces, 1.2.2) eye contact, 1.2.3) body language, 1.2.4) areas of positions and levels, 1.2.5) distances, 1.2.6) voices, and 1.2.7) other things; and 2) characteristics of power in Thai drama with 2 attributes: 2.1) types of power expressed through the relationships of the actors, namely 2.1.1) the vertical power the actors expressing in three ways that are through the relationships in family, through the relationships in the workplace, and through the relationships of body; and 2.1.2) the horizontal power the actors expressed through the relationships in the workplace; 2.2.2) characteristics of using power; namely, 2.2.1) the use of power through verbal language and non-verbal language with requirements of the actors; and 2.2.2) the rebelling and resistance of power. As the result, the tool used in displaying power most was the body.

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