Method

This is a scenic exercise for two people.

The idea is that you never talk about the thing you’re both doing.

So if you’re surgeons, you talk about travel.

If you’re judges, you talk about men you fancy etc.

The physical and verbal worlds of the scene are kept at arms length from each other.

Teaching notes

There are a number of ways to do these scenes.

The basic way is described above but there are variations:

Ordinary/ extraordinary

Combined with Yes yes YES

The scenes work best when you hardly mentioned what you are doing at all but you can also play with something like a 5%/ 95% split.