GAMES FOR ANGRY COUPLES – GAME 4: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (PART 1)
Players: Beauty (wife) and the Beast (husband). Activists: Both.
Setting: A dwelling in the woods.
Game Plan: This game is for angry couples consisting of a husband who has been continually accused of being—and may actually be—a beast, bastard, abuser, or (if possible) worse; and a wife who despises him and despairs of his ever changing. Like other couples, they will have been locked into this ritualized way of relating, she hurling insults at him in an attempt to browbeat or guilt-trip him into being good, and he defying her by being even more beastly.
If possible, the couple should play this game mainly in a house or cabin in the woods. (If they can get hold of a castle, so much the better.) Once in the woods, the game should loosely follow the story line of the famous children’s story it is named after. The wife wanders into the woods one day, dressed in a virginal white gown. She encounters the Beast.
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