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Introduction ix

1. Theatresports 1
   Origins, 1 - Theatresports at Loose Moose, 2 - Theatresports by Stealth, 6 - Teaching the "Form', 7 - In at the Deep End, 11 - Disaster is Unavoidable, 12 - The Sticky Stage, 12 - The Magnetic Stage, 13 - Challenges, 13 - The Warning for Boring, 16 - Misbehaviour, 18 - Using Audience Volunteers, 20 - Mime, 21 - Why is Theatresports a Comic Form?, 22 - Types of Player, 23 - What Theatresports Can Achieve, 23
2. Audience Suggestions 25
   No One Cares, 25 - Laughter Misleads, 26 - Traps, 28 - Rejecting Suggestions, 28 - Scene Sale, 29 - Use Restraint, 29
3. Trouble with Feedback 31
   Getting Educated, 31 - Fools Paradise, 31 - Destructive Feedback, 33 - Being 'Over-cheered', 33 - Group-Yes, 34 - Flashlight Theatre, 36 - The 'Seen Enough' Game, 36 - Theme and Forfeit, 39 - Gorilla Theatre, 42 - Micetro Impro, 49
4. Spontaneity 5$
   Here Be Monsters, 55 - Being a Chameleon, sS - No Syllabus, 55 - Progressive Desensitization, 56 - Paradoxical Teaching: 56 - Tug-o'-War, 57 - Giving Presents, 58 - Evaluating the Work, 59 - Playing Tag, 59 - On Not Making the Rules Clear, 60 - Blame Me, 60 - Drop Dead, Keith, 61 - Volunteers, and Failure, 61 - When Students Fail, 62

- Forcing Failure, 63 - Don't Punish Yourself, 64 - Be Average, 64 - Sport Versus Show-business, 66 - The Wrong Risks, 67 - Dullness is Deliberate, 68 - Being "Original', 69 - The Imagination, 72 - Prodigies, 73

§ Impro for Storytellers 75

Journey without Maps, 75 - Action and Interaction, 76 - On Not Being a Hero, 78 - Moral Decisions, 78 - Circles of Expectation, 79 - Point, 80 - Justification, 81 - Mysteries, 82 - Breaking the Routine, 84

- Fun with Tilting, 89

1. Making Things Happen 101
   Blocking, 101 - Being Negative, 113 - Wimping, 14 - Cancelling, n8 -
   Jorming, 118 - Gossiping, 118 - Agreed Activities, 120 - Bridging, 120-
   Hedging, 123 - Sidetracking, 123 - Being Original, 124 - Looping, 124 - Gagging, 125 - Comic Exaggeration, 127 - Conflict, 128 - Instant Trouble, 128 - Lowering the Stakes, 128 - Consequences, 120
2. Story Games 130
   Creating Games, 130 - Word-af-a-Time, 131 - What Comes Next?, 134

- Non-sequential Lists, 142 - Link the Items, 144 - Verbal Chase, 144 - The Bons Game, 145 - Keyboard Game, 15%

8 Being There 155

Game, 156 - Making Faces, 162 - The Vampire, 168 - Leave for the Same Keason, 169 - Dubbing, 171 - Invisibility, 178 - ihe Ghost

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1. Some Filler Games 103
   The Die Game, 183 - Emotional Goals, 184 - Endowments, 185 - Freeze Games, 186 - Guess the Phrase, 187 - Ine No 5 Game, 188 - A Scene without.. ., 189 - Sideways Scenes, 139 - 705-048, 190
2. Procedures 192
   Blind Offers, 102 - justify the Gesture, 193 - He Said/She Said, 195 - Substitution Impro, 199 - Moving Bodies, 200 - The Arms, 202 - 1he Dwarf, 204 - 1 he Giant, 204 - Adjective, 204 - Wide Byes, 204 - Wide Mouth, 206 - Tempo, 207 - Sound Scape, 208 - You're Interesting.

209 - Boring the Audience, 211 - Wallpaper Drama, 212 - Straight Men,

213 - Gibberish, 214 - Status, 210 - The Kinetic Dance, 232 - Party Endowments, 233 - Sandwiches, 236 - The King Game, 237 - Master Servant, 240 - Slow-motion Commentary, 241 - Verse, 245 -

The Klutz, 246 - Advancing (And Not Advancing), 248 - Hitting with

Balloons, 254 - Веер-Веер, 260

11 Serious Scenes 264
Substituting Phrases, 264 - Love and Hate, 265 - Emotional Sounds.

268 - Mantras, 27o - Alfred Lunt. 274

1. Character 275
   Who Are We?, 275 - Changing the Body Image, 276 - Machines, 277 - People Machines, 277 - Being Animals, 278 - Obsessions, 280 - Fast-Food Laban, 283 - Past-Food Stanislawky. 285
2. Miscellaneous Games 302
   Bell and Buzzer, 302 - Scenes with Fingers, 302 - People as Objects, 303

- Dennss's Puppet Show, 304 - Changing the Obic, 304

14 Entertainment Games 307
Stealing: 307 - The Knife Game, 308 - Hand on Knee, 310 - Spasms,

314 - Paper-Plickang, 316 - Speech Defect Game, 317

1. Technical Stuff 320
   Judges, 320 - Penalties, 325 - Counting Out, 326 - Waving the Lights Down, 327 - Scorang, 327 - Three Seldom-used Versions of Theatre sports, 328 - The Five Eneatresports Matches in Current Use, 329 - Rules of Theatresports, 331
2. Alterthoughts 337
   the Body, 337 - The Mind, 338 - The Sexes, 338 - Quality, 339 - Great Audiences, 340 - Great Improvisers, 341 - Getting Jaded, 341

Appendix One: Fast-Food Stanislavsky Lists 343

sopendix wo: Secction of ilt Lists 354

Appendix three: More tiller Games 302

Appendix Four: Notes Ive Given 369

Index of Games 373