Bataca

When engaged in a fantasy monologue, the teacher who is experiencing angry conflict with a student will need a soft chair or bed and a bataca (which is a stick with heavy padding on it) or simply a newspaper that has been tightly rolled.

She agreed, and the therapist instructed her on how to start by demonstrating how to use a bataca (padded bat) to release the anger physically. As he demonstrated the use of the bataca, the subject recoiled and revealed to him that she had been hit and physically abused by her ex-husband.

For about a year or so, I even used batacas, so that the actors could vent anger, frustration, and hostility. A bataca was a round, heavily padded instrument with a handle, with which two actors would beat each other.