The Guy. Two Chairs.
At the start of the play, The Guy sits in one of the chairs. It’s comfortable. Pleasant. The kind of chair that you could watch the entirety of The English Patient in without getting uncomfortable.
For a little while, just The Guy in this chair.
He doesn’t have to look at the empty chair to know there’s a vacant space beside him. And while vacant spaces often make people feel similarly empty, The Guy does not.
Because the space beside him is alive with possibility. It’s not the emptiness that interests him, but the potential to fill it that does. Someone, eventually, is going to sit in that chair. Maybe only for a little while. Maybe for a long time. Maybe someone’s going to take up permanent residence in that chair. Who knows?
And that’s the fun part.
That empty chair is a lot like the stage around this little scene.
It’s a space in which an infinite number of things can happen. Giant Bears, Groundhogs, even Icarus falling from the sky can happen in a place like this.
So maybe it’s going to be someone we’ve already seen. Maybe it’s going to be someone brand new. Maybe it’s someone The Guy isn’t even aware of.
But someone is waiting to make an entrance.
Someone will fill the vacant space in an unoccupied chair.
The Guy looks out at the audience with a look that says, “Any takers?”
The lights go down.
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2 comments:
Very much is the glass half empty or half full...an empty space while being a void does not have to have a negative connotation...it's a pallette waiting to be filled with life!!
It seems there are more than just two chairs, though chairs always come in pairs. You just need to make sure that the chair next to you doesn't have loose screws or gum stuck to the seat. That could be a problem.
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