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The HATS Manual -> The Methodology -> Activities -> Interplay
Interplay Between Players and Audience
Objective:
- To encourage the spect-actors to change how the players have dealt with an issue in their play,
and to replace a player so that the play can be performed again with different endings.
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- The objective of the Interplay is not necessarily to find the correct solution to particular problems,
but rather to explore possibilities.
Activity:
The play is performed for the second time (in a faster motion) and the spect-actors are invited to yell "stop"
and freeze the scene as soon as they see something they think should be done differently such as an incident of
oppression, a conflict or a problem. When the sect-actor yells "STOP!", she/he comes to the playing area and
replaces the character dealing/suffering the problem and rehearses her/his possible solution to that problem -
this is called an intervention.
Participants explore and rehearse a variety of possible solutions, proposed by the spect-actor during the
forum/interactive discussion of the problems portrayed in the plays.
Participants discuss the possible solutions and intervention strategies to identify barriers preventing
people from acting upon the possible, chosen solutions.
Ask Spect-actors:
- What you would need to help you do it differently?
- What resources already exist and how can we access them?
Facilitator Tip: The facilitator can motivate the audience to take action by making it clear to the audience
that if they don't change the world, no one will, and everything will turn out exactly the same, which is
the last thing we want to happen.
Quote from Boal: " if they don't change the world, no one will for them, and everything will
inevitably turn exactly the same - which is the last thing we would want to happen."
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