ABSTRACT
This chapter explains that the structured improvisations provide a point of entry into the actor's inhabitation and experience of the state of play in-between. It says that structured improvisations are a set of very simple psychophysical tasks organized into increasingly complex rule-based structures played in a workshop setting where one acts without GÇ£acting.GÇ¥ GÇ£ActingGÇ¥ is in quotation marks because the point of entry into each structured improvisation is the same as in the daily psychophysical training.The chapter elaborates that the actor begins to act GÇ£without [trying to] act.GÇ¥ It explains that in the first session with any group is introduced the reduction exercise which is followed by the first and simplest structured improvisation. A whole new realm and quality of playing is usually opened up when objects are introduced into structured improvisations. The playing of structured improvisation prepares the actors for GÇ£playingGÇ¥ this constantly shifting dramatic terrain. Other structured improvisations prepare actors for playing alternative dramaturgies.
