Table of Contents
Foreword Paul Hunter xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xviii
1 Raking Over a Few Gurus 1
Rules 6
The Way We Learn 7
The Dreyfus Brothers 8
Big-Boy Stan 11
Copeau and the Mask 12
The 'Ten Commandments' 13
Moshe Feldenkrais 16
In the Beginning was the Mask … 18
The Handkerchief Game 19
The Spectacles Game 21
The Tomato-Sandwich Incident 27
'The Holy Trinity' 32
'Have nothing to remember' 33
'Finding the game' 38
'Suck it and see' 43
The Only Rule of Theatre 45
2 When the Whole Face is Covered: Playing Full-Mask 47
Ko-omote 49
How Masks Work 51
The Face-Match Game 55
The Eyes or Mouth Debate 56
The Smile Game 58
Trigger-Lines 59
Project Bali 60
Woman About To Do Something 64
The Politics of Beauty 67
The Quest for Symmetry 69
Playing Neutral 70
Playing Tag 70
The Heavy-Arms Game 73
Where Sculpture and Acting Meet 74
The Pygmalion myth 76
The Innocent 78
The Archetype of Play 80
Playing an Impulse 81
The Shoe Game 81
Playfulness 84
My Great Gaffc 85
The Mechanics of Play 86
The Innocent's Game 86
Nice-but-Dim 90
The Play Game 91
The Determined Heron 93
The Paper-Bag Game 94
The Flirting Game 95
The Presents Game 97
Counter-Mask (I) 100
A Difficult Commission 102
Woman About To Be Hero 103
Composite Types 104
The Physiognomy Game 104
The Hero 108
Pure Types and Composite Types 110
A Break with Tradition 113
The Back-to-Back Game 114
Playing Blind 114
The Morning-After-the-Night-Before Game 119
3 When Part of the Face is Covered: Playing Half-Mask 121
Arlecchino 123
The Arlecchino Mask 125
The Powerhouse of the Mask 126
The Half-Mask Face-Match Game 129
The Prompting Game 130
The Rhythm Game 133
Animal Motifs 134
Playing the Provocateur 136
The Slapstick Game 136
The Dog-Training Game 138
Direct Provocation 140
The Blocking Game 141
The Dog-Handler Game 142
Mr Magoo (The Modern Half-Mask) 145
Modern Half-Masks and Connected Speech 149
The Speech-Impediment Game 152
The Expert Game 153
Mutual Provocation 154
Man Trying To Be Nice (Balinese Bondres) 157
Counter-Mask (2) 159
The Lying Game 162
Between the Shape and the Person 163
The Red Nose (The Smallest Mask in the World) 166
The Blood Orange Story 167
The Nose Incident 168
The Big Lesson 170
A Little Neutral Mask for the Clown 175
The Stopping-and-Starting Game 175
The Horizon Game 177
The Inappropriate-Text Game 179
4 When the Mask Becomes a Thought: Archetypal Masks 181
The Trickster 185
The Archetype Game 186
Mirror Neurons 188
The Trickster's Game 191
A List of Masks and Their Trigger-Lines 192
The Trigger-Line Game 193
'Persona' and 'Character' 194
Man About To Be Hero 197
The Hero 199
The Persona Game 201
Ninian's Archetypal Masks 202
The Fool 206
The Fool's Game 207
The Victim 209
The Victim's Game 210
The Game of Chase 211
Topping-It Game 211
The Child 213
The Child's Game 214
The Virgin 216
The Virgin's Game 218
The Mother 219
The Mother's Game 221
The Huntress 223
The Huntress's Game 225
The Ogre 226
The Ogre's Game 227
The Crone 228
The Crone's Game 230
The Hermit 231
The Hermit's Game 233
The Devil 236
The Devil's Game 237
The Size Game 239
5 When the Text Becomes a Mask 241
Lady Macbeth in Feathers 243
The Tape Game 246
The Interloper 247
The first version 248
The Positive-Feedback Game 249
The second version 250
Coping with the Gap 251
The third version 252
The fourth version 254
The Choice of Text 256
Listening 257
The Listening Game 258
The Scarf Game 259
The Liking-and-Loathing Game 261
The Opposites Game 262
Using Archetypes 264
An Afternoon with the Macbeths 264
Playing Blind and the Tape Game 266
Romeo as The Devil 268
Simple Provocations 269
Using Half-Masks 271
The Grunting-and-Heavy-Breathing Game 272
Using Neutral Mask 275
The Times-Table Game 276
Angles of Expression 279
Using Clown 281
Finding the Game 282
The Pause Game 284
In Conclusion: Something for Tomorrow 289
