Where are we?

This is a Game. It is in the following categories:

• Characters

• Exercise

• Narration

• Performance

Object Narrative

How it Works

Place one chair on stage. The group sits or stands to the sides so they can see what is going on. Someone chooses an object from the room and places it on the chair. (Or get an object from the audience in a show) That object is your suggestion.

One at a time, three members (or how ever many you decide) do a short monologue off that object. One person starts and when they are done, they leave the object on the chair for the next person. Whoever is inspired jumps up next adding their part of the story/situation from another character's point of view. and the third person completes the cycle.

This exercise is extremely character based. The first character sets the story in motion and then the other two people find a way to be another interesting character that will accept and heighten the first initiation. The challenge is to not be totally predictable with the follow up character choices (avoid immediately choosing to be the spouse when you could be that person's mailman...or manicurist instead). At the same time you still want to support the story line and justify what the previous characters have already established. The characters don't have to know each other, but they must have connections (if only through the object).

This exercise helps:

• listening (you must listen to the characters before you to know how you can fit into the story/situation and justify it.)
• character work
• Truthfulness (try not to focus 'just' on the object. It's about the relationships and connections between the 3 different characters.)
• Reincorporating

Time wounds all heels --- NN