🎳Three Chairs on the Veranda

Setup and Launch

Set three chairs in a line facing an imaginary "view"; designate the space as a summer veranda. Invite three participants: under each seat is a "hidden" imaginary object that cannot be named. Gaze is always directed into the distance, not at partners or the audience.

How It Works

Round structure: finding the object, working with it, and jointly observing a distant event with spoken statements.

1. Finding the object. On the coach's signal, lower your hand under the chair and "feel" the object without words.

2. Exploration. Slowly bring out the object and perform detailed object-work: weight, shape, texture, manner of use; keep the object in action throughout the round.

3. Distant gaze. While keeping gaze on the horizon, begin reacting to an imaginary event "out there", without turning eyes toward partners.

4. Speech moves. Formulate lines as statements and observations; avoid questions. Maintain a shared vision of what's happening (acceptance).

5. Character. Don't stop contact with the object; through the manner of handling it, reveal the character's relationship to the world and to what they see.

Result — each character's worldview becomes readable through the action with the object and the line of commentary about the distant event.