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GAMES FOR PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE COUPLES – GAME 3: NUDE HAMLET (PART 1)

09/04/09

Players: Passive spouse (audience), aggressive spouse (actor), and dummy.

Activist: Aggressive spouse, without the knowledge or cooperation of mate.

Setting: Living room with makeshift stage or room with real stage.

Aim: To shock passive into awareness and allow aggressive to discharge rage.

Game Plan: This game is a take-off on the play within a play from Shakespeare’s Hamlet in which he notes that “The play’s the thing, wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.”

The aggressive spouse announces to the passive spouse one night after dinner, “Darling, I have a little surprise. I’ve made up a little play just for you. You like theater, don’t you, darling?”

The aggressive spouse turns the lights down and prepares to act out a scene from their sex life. On the stage is a sofa or bed on which lies a life-size “dummy” (or doll) which will be the surrogate for the passive spouse. The aggressive spouse, having stripped down, enters the scene naked, and lies beside the dummy. (Let’s generally refer to the passive-spouse “dummy” as the dummy, and to the aggressive spouse as simply the spouse.)