Brilliant! This is exactly how I've always felt about the chairs, but only scratched the surface in my thinking. Chairs are like the FREE space on a bingo card, the one thing on your stage (apart from the players) that the audience can see. So why not use them intentionally?
One way we used to get a suggestion from the audience was to drop a chair in the middle of the stage and say: "This is not a chair. It's a..." and then use it as that object in the next scene. At Second City, there's a classic photo of an actor playing the Pope, holding a bentwood chair on his head as a giant hat.
Brilliant! This is exactly how I've always felt about the chairs, but only scratched the surface in my thinking. Chairs are like the FREE space on a bingo card, the one thing on your stage (apart from the players) that the audience can see. So why not use them intentionally?
One way we used to get a suggestion from the audience was to drop a chair in the middle of the stage and say: "This is not a chair. It's a..." and then use it as that object in the next scene. At Second City, there's a classic photo of an actor playing the Pope, holding a bentwood chair on his head as a giant hat.
Here's Lloydie, making me a chair offering. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=572625272831848&set=pb.100066374624463.-2207520000