Solo
One Person, Two Chairs
Play both sides of a two-person scene, physically switching chairs on every line, until two distinct people exist.
How to run it
- Set two chairs facing each other. Pick a premise — a relationship and a want (or pull one from the generators).
- Sit in chair one, deliver a first line as that character.
- Move to chair two. Answer as the second character — different posture, different tempo, different opinion.
- Keep the scene going eight to twelve lines, switching every time.
- End on a line that resolves something, then say what each character wanted out loud.
What it teaches
Point of view. Because you are both people, the only way to keep the scene alive is to give each one an actual position — which is precisely the skill in a real scene.
Coaching notes
The characters will start agreeing with each other because both are you. Give chair two a grievance in their first line and defend it honestly.
Where it usually goes wrong
Skipping the physical switch. Staying in one seat collapses both voices into narration; the walk between chairs is what resets your body into the other person.