Shaking Hands with the TEXT

Most scenes are like a chess match - each person vying for power. This game helps you to see and to experience more clearly "game moves" you are making. (Wonderful for Pinter.) Sit facing your partner. Put a glass or some object between you- like it is a chess piece- and the playing board is between you. As you say your line, move the piece forward. Finish the move at the end of your line. (Forward if you are aggressing. Backward if you are retreating.) Your partner makes her move on her line.