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  First of all we we play tag games  
 , but we change the rules of the tag…

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  ..so we move from just simple   
 touching into a final tag game...

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  ..where everybody is tagged and   
 ends up in a circle.

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  (noise of tag game)

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  Then we take a Peter Brook   
 exercise, which is…

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  ..choose one person in the circle   
 you want to stand next to,

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  one person you want to keep away   
 from, you must keep hold of hands,

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  so that what you end up is a whole  
  group of people who've…

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  ..gone through each other's legs   
 over their heads and then they
  re knotted up.

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  (noise of circle exercise)

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  Then you you come back.

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  (noise of circle exercise)

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  (Lizbeth Goodman) The workshop   
 participants are a mixture of young
  struggling actors,

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  more experienced actors doing some  
  brushing up on physical skills,

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  and students encountering these   
 exercises for the first time.

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  Barker doesn't tell them what   
 plays he's thinking of,

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  finding that out for themselves is  
  part of the game.

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  Then I say two men two women. You'  
 re in love with him, but she's in
  love with him.

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  Okay, the object of the exercise   
 is kiss the hand…

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  ..and right up the arm of the   
 person you love,

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  and keep your arm well away from   
 the person you don't love,

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  and this is a basic game of   
 Midsummer Night's Dream.

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  (noise of exercise)

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  Stanislavski our great teacher   
 says to us, when you're playing a part in
  a situation,

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  try and go back in your memory to   
 try and recall some situation…

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  ..where you can recreate the   
 feelings or bring back the feelings...

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  ..which will help you to play that  
  scene,

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  but if you play a game like that   
 during the rehearsal period,

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  you have an emotional memory which  
  is not in the past it's in
  the present,

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  and which is absolutely specific   
 to the situation in the play you
  re working on.

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  (Clive Barker) Okay can I have two  
  men two women please? Yeah, okay?

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  You are in love with him, I know   
 you've only met him but you're in
  love with him,

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  but he's in love with her,   
 unfortunately she's in love with him.

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  But unfortunately he's in love   
 with her, okay. That's it.

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  So the object of the exercise now   
 is to kiss the hand of the person you love,

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  (kissing sounds and laughter)

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  and keep your hand well away from   
 the person you don't love.

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  Okay. Can we give them space? Okay  
 , go.

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  (noise of exercise and laughter   
 from onlookers)

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  (Clive Barker) It's a question of   
 finding what is the basic action
  of the play,

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  what would you say is the basic   
 action of the play.