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Tables of Contents for Theater Games for Rehearsal
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
Preface
Preparation
3
13
The Director
4
1
Theater Techniques
5
1
Choosing the Play
6
1
The Director's Objective
6
1
Focus
7
1
Casting
8
1
Evaluation
9
1
The Director as Sidecoach
9
1
Sidecoaching
10
1
Spontaneity---The Off-Balance Moment
11
1
The Director's Ability to Inspire
11
1
Rehearsals
12
1
Theme
13
1
The Acting ``Side''
14
2
Workshops
16
6
Seeing and Not Staring
16
6
Exposure
17
1
Tug of War
18
1
Three Changes
18
1
Play Ball
19
1
Mirror
20
1
Who is the Mirror?
20
1
Follow the Follower
21
1
The First Rehearsal Period
22
20
Suggestions
22
1
The First Reading
22
5
Feeling Self with Self
24
1
Vowels and Consonants
25
1
Spelling
26
1
Slow Motion
26
1
Singing Dialogue
26
1
Warm-Ups
27
2
Explosion Tag
27
1
Pussy Wants a Corner
28
1
Who Started the Motion?
28
1
Walk-Through Rehearsal
29
1
Where (The Set)
30
4
Where Game #1
31
1
Where Game #2
32
1
Where Game #3
33
1
Give and Take
34
3
Take and Give
34
1
Give and Take Warm-Up
34
1
Give and Take
35
1
Converge and Re-Divide
36
1
Stage Movement (Blocking)
37
2
Sight Lines for an End Stage
39
1
Stage Picture
39
1
Stage Picture
40
1
Stage Business
40
1
Keep That!
41
1
The Second Rehearsal Period
42
10
The Relaxed Rehearsal
44
1
General Improvisations around the Play
45
3
Begin and End with Objects
46
1
Seeing the Word
47
1
Explore and Heighten
47
1
Laughter in Rehearsal
48
1
Seasoning the Players
49
1
The Nonstop Run-Through
50
1
Biographies
50
2
Tune-Ups
52
17
Reading Lines Naturally
52
2
Gibberish: Selling
53
1
Gibberish/English
53
1
Memorization
54
1
Timing
55
1
Three-Way Conversation
55
1
Contact
56
2
Eye Contact #1
56
1
Contact
57
1
Contact with the Audience
58
1
Eye Contact #2
58
1
Listening to the Players
59
1
Picking Up Cues
59
1
Physicalization
60
3
Showing Emotion (Inner Action) Through Objects
61
1
Changing Emotion
62
1
Emotion
63
1
Changing Intensity of Emotion
63
1
Camera
64
1
Silence before Scenes
64
1
Silence on Stage
64
2
Silent Scream
65
1
Silent Tension #1
65
1
Silent Tension #2
66
1
Theatricality
66
1
Extended Sound
67
1
Out of the Head! Into the Space!
67
2
Space Substance
68
1
The Third Rehearsal Period
69
15
Growing Stale
69
6
Dubbing
71
1
Part of a Whole, Object
72
1
Verbalizing the Where, Part 1
73
1
Verbalizing the Where, Part 2
74
1
Spot Rehearsals
75
1
Shadowing
75
2
Shadowing
76
1
Exits and Entrances
77
1
Exits and Entrances
77
1
Seeing the Show
78
1
Stage Fright in the Director
78
1
The Special Run-Through (Cutting the Umbilical Cord)
79
1
Makeup and the Actor
80
1
The Costume Parade
80
1
The First Dress Rehearsal
81
1
The Performance
81
1
Random Pointers
82
2
Games for Continuing Rehearsals
84
29
Character Games
84
1
Physical Visualization
85
9
Box Full of Hats
86
1
How Old Am I?
87
1
What Do I Do for a Living?
87
1
Who Am I?
88
1
Who Game #1
88
1
Who Game #2
89
1
How Old Am I? Repeat
90
1
Exercise for the Back #1
90
1
Exercise for the Back #2
91
1
Hold It! #1
91
1
Hold It! #2
92
1
Mirror Penetration
92
1
Transformation of Relation
93
1
Listening/Hearing Games
94
4
Mirror Sound
94
1
Mirror Speech
95
1
Stage Whisper
96
1
Unrelated Conversations
96
1
Vocal Sound Effects
97
1
Who's Knocking?
97
1
No Motion Games
98
2
No Motion Warm-Up
98
1
No Motion: Walking
99
1
Space Games
100
1
Finding Objects in the Immediate Environment
100
1
Space Walks
100
5
Space Walk #1
101
1
Space Walk #2
102
1
Space Walk #3: Skeleton
103
1
Touch and be Touched/See and be Seen
104
1
Traditional Games
105
2
Object Relay
105
1
When I go to California
106
1
Singing Syllables
107
1
More Where Games
107
3
The Specialized Where
107
1
What Time is it?
108
1
What's Beyond: Activity
108
1
What's Beyond?
109
1
Miscellaneous Games
110
3
Add a Part
110
1
Deaf Audience
110
1
Blind
111
1
Pitchman
111
1
Occluding
112
1
Glossary of Sidecoaching Phrases
113
3
Index of Games
116