Hot-seating involves having a dialogue with a character. The character steps out of the drama for a while, usually sits in an appointed chair (the hot-seat) and is open to questioning by the audience or students. The character must answer in role.
You do not have use a chair as a hot-seat. You can just freeze or recreate a key moment in the drama and ‘hot-seat’ a character in situ.
The questioners need not be in any particular role, in which case we can say that they are in a ‘shadow role’. However, they can be given roles. For example, the person in the hot-seat could be an eyewitness to a crime, and the questioners could be police officers ‘hot-seating’ the witness.
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