Day 5

We began with ball tossing, getting us in step and rhythm as a group.

Structured improvisation:

1) Play traditional games: chess, Jenga, cards, etc..

2) Conversation from standard topics: the weather, food, etc..

3) Select a life position: IOK/YOK; IOK/YNOK; INOK/YOK; INOK/YNOK

4) Select an ego state: Parent or Child.

Note: as we go forward with this work, we are trying to look through the text towards elements of character transactions in order to build our "actors' tool kit."

We finished with a backward reconstruction of a scene, noting how the end choices become more fully informed as we work "upstream" and discover the logic of the scene.

Assignment: work with this backwards method as you prepare your scenes. Building from the end backwards puts you n a better position to move towards strength as your scene develops.