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Who Needs What?
By Debra Bruch
Entire Company (5 people minimum):
- Person #1 -- the beater
- Person #2 -- the beatee
- Person #3
- Rest of the company are in the audience: holding
the pencils and baskets
Needed:
- Pieces of paper for the audience members
- Small pencils for audience members
- Collection basket
Two people are onstage. All but one of the rest
of the company are sitting in the audience.
Person #1 beats Person #2 (fake it) and doesn't
quit. Pretty soon, a person from the audience stands and tells Person
#1 to stop it. He doesn't. Another and another and another are standing
in the audience telling Person #1 to stop. Finally, Person #1 stops
and stands side by side facing the audience.
Person #3 enters and tells the audience that he
wants to take a survey. Which person needs to be healed? Clap your hands
to indicate which person you choose needs to be healed. Person #3 crosses
to Person #1 and asks the audience if he needs to be healed. Clap hands.
Person #3 then crosses to Person #2 and asks the audience if he needs
to be healed.
If at all possible, get the audience into a dialogue.
Ask them how they would heal Person #1. Then ask them how they would
heal Person #2. If this isn't possible, skip to the next part. The other
two people onstage can help with this.
(Person #1 and #2 exit into the audience.)
Then ask the audience to look to the person beside
them. Point out that they need to be healed.
Have each audience member write down a way they
need to be healed. Collect the pieces of paper. Then pass the collection
again and ask people, if they want to, to pick up someone's need.
(Company members in the audience will need to
hold a bunch of pencils, get up, and ask if anyone needs a pencil for
this exercise. They then need to pass the baskets.)
This takes a Person #3 who can handle a tough
situation.
Copyright 1988 Debra Bruch
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