WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?
👫 Are you forcing a scene partner into songs that don’t actually have one?
👤 When a character is alone onstage, inventing an “other” doesn’t make the acting stronger. It breaks the given circumstances.
🫥 For these songs, the whole point is solitude. No partner. No witness. Just thought.
👀 When you stop pretending someone is there, your eyes finally behave like thoughts. Solitude is active. Ideas shift, memories hit, attention moves. That’s the good stuff.
⚓️ Some songs stay alone physically but burst with inner relationships. Place those emotional anchors around the room. Let the imagination move you instead of pinning yourself to a fake target.
🎯 If you need a target, zoom out. Aim it at God, the universe, someone miles away, or the audience as confidant.
🧠 Ask better questions: What does this character’s aloneness look like? Where does their mind travel? What ideas pull them across the room?
⚡️ Because sometimes the most powerful choice isn’t singing to someone, it’s letting us watch you think when nobody is there.
