ABSTRACT

A volunteer is invited to cast the players as his family, and to ring a bell when they are on the right track, and to press a buzzer when their guesses are wrong. Dennis's 'showman' character is so jaded and disillusioned that it doesn't matter if the puppets are inept or stiff with fright, but most volunteers soon become uninhibited, and the spectators are eager to reward them. Taught with kindness, it can become an excellent way to teach the students to relax, and to ease up on their intellectual control. The author point out that their imperfect mime makes any Inimed object seem to be altering: that their alarm-clock is getting smaller as they wind it up, and that their yo-yo resembles a bouncing ball. Someone claims to be stumped by this exercise, so authorask him to handle a mimed stick and it looks as if it'll turn into a bow.