With each new play Sueko asked four questions: Does the play engage a community that traditionally doesn't attend theater?
The therapists trained the subjects to play the games and to approach and greet, offer to play, engage in reciprocal play, and signal the end of the interaction using three different items: a pack of gum, a Sony Walkman, and a handheld gaming device with Pac-Man or Galaxian.
Ignoring Your Inner Kid Smile, play, laugh, have fun, engage, connect.
"The play engages the audience and is cathartic in a profound and disquieting way," Ms. Channer said.
The dance-play engages us in the characters' dilemmas without getting heated or setting itself at an ironic distance.
Actually, Larissa seems to spend most of the play engaged in emotional tussles of one sort or another with the men in her orbit, but she never emerges as a particularly sympathetic or even clearly defined character.
An excellent, free education where learning is meaningful – with arts, play, engaging projects, and the chance to learn citizenship skills so that children can one day participate — actively and consciously – in this increasingly fragile democracy".
I led a group of American Jews in their 20s and 30s who, in addition to viewing the play, engaged in 10 days of intensive dialogue with their German Christian counterparts in several German cities.
At right, Brianna Maisonette, 5, smothered a laugh as her teammates, appearing momentarily confused about what game they were playing, engaged in what seemed to be either a full-court press or a fumble recovery.
At a time when the bulk of Broadway theatre - and, to be honest, much of the West End too - is designed to offer sensation and escape, Hare's play engages the heart and mind.
