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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 11:15am on 18/05/2005
The first Barchester rehearsal is (hopefully) tommorow. [livejournal.com profile] atreic and I have been discussing the value of warm-ups before rehearsals start. My own personal experience is that the LOTR play director didn't organise them, and we collectively decided not to bother when we've done the RSC. But I am aware that there are many thespy people on my friends list, so I thought I'd see what you all thought. This is for a small cast (10 people), and there is no singing involved.


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In addition, if you have any great warm-ups that you think everyone should use, then please comment :)

Edit: yes, I know I spelt rehearsal wrong.
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posted by [identity profile] the-alchemist.livejournal.com at 10:22am on 18/05/2005
I've never really done warm-ups with (adult) LSM casts - somehow it never seemed appropriate. I think that was probably the right call when it comes to physical stuff, but maybe a vocal warm-up would have been a good idea? Some of them tend to be quite quiet and the church isn't the easiest place to fill.
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posted by [identity profile] mirabehn.livejournal.com at 10:39am on 18/05/2005
My experience is that there are no hard and fast rules: some directors use them extensively (and I agree with Catriona that vocal warm-ups are especially important), some don't. Some actors find them very helpful, some don't.

As an actor and as a director I'm always very much in favour, but don't tend to mind if they don't happen.

Which is probably all terribly unhelpful. *grins*
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posted by [identity profile] atreic.livejournal.com at 11:44am on 18/05/2005
I found warm-ups are very good for me pre-show... having a routine that has been built up with the cast before rehersals gives us something to do in the gap between being in costume and going on stage, and this can really calm me down / focus me / get me into charactor. And I think they help people who don't know each other very well and arn't the strongest of actors warm up and lose their inhibitions a bit.
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posted by [identity profile] claroscuro.livejournal.com at 12:57pm on 18/05/2005
I used to hate warm ups, but I do think they can be very helpful. I'm never a big fan of very physical warmups, though, except in unusual circumstances (we did Barnum with 'real' circus tricks, so the whole cast were kind of by definition able!); many of our actors when I was heavily involved were quite elderly, and broken hips might be considered a bit of a Bad Thing!
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posted by [identity profile] leonato.livejournal.com at 04:05pm on 18/05/2005
I dislike acting if I haven't warmed up. It's always amazing how much better people are with a warm up first!

Don't use singing exercises with non-singers; it's a waste of time, irritates people and can damage voices, spoken and humming exercises are better.

For more, I've commented on atreic's post.
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posted by [identity profile] sashajwolf.livejournal.com at 11:51am on 19/05/2005
I think my answer reflects the fact that what little thespian experience I have was in Germany, where the theatrical tradition had for some time been more physical than in Britain (although there seems to have been something of a rapprochement between the two approaches in the seventeen-odd years since I was actively involved).
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