Hot Seating Hot Seating is a good exercise to widen the understanding of your character. The example of hot seating I am going to use was when we looked at an extract called 'The Telephone Conversation', by Wole Soyinka. The conversation was between a black African man, and a very racist white woman who is a landlady and the Caucasian man wanted to buy a flat of her. You see the contrast in emotions when the women finds out about his colour and his reaction. Hot seating involves standing up in role and having the audience asking you questions....
at it. Role play is interesting as you are used to working with other people so they have an effect on your performance, and you depend on them to help you out. It makes you less confident on your own, but it is just a skill you have to get used to. Role play is good as you can improvise, and if you mess up it doesn't really matter because you can just keep going. Overall I think I did okay in with this piece of drama, and it was good learning about the prejudiced issues in 1930.