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Production Week runs Monday 8th March-Saturday 13th. Performances start at 8pm, with a 2pm matinee on Saturday. Tickets are priced £3/£2 concessions and can be purchased here, on 020 7722 9301 or at the Box Office in person.

Rehearsal Room Notes: Week 5

This week vocal coach Gary Horner was able to join us again. He introduced some exercises for the cast to help maintain their voices, including asking them to lie on the floor, lie on their sides and crouch curled up.

Following this Gary wanted to help the group develop their articulation. Imagining a statue they wanted to build, each member of the cast was asked to use sounds as 'vocal chisels' to imagine building their statue with, beginning by softening the imagined marble by blowing bubbles that made a P sound. To blow the dust off they had to use Ba sound. Finally, using the biggest chisel to finish using Da and using a G chisel to sign their masterpieces with, the cast had to illustrate to the others what their statue was.

The cast then did a run-through of the movement piece that is going to be used at the beginning of the performance, with Emily and Lisa helping out with the timing. Afterwards, the cast worked on the play itself. There were some character changes this week to adapt to and a very cool handshake was added in. The characters of Sharkey and Sam are becoming closer as we see how they manipulate members of Divinity to do their ill-will as a team. We also saw how Chantelle was having to cover up her true feelings more and more when following the teachings of the 'Exalted Enlightened One'...

Rehearsal Room Photos: Week 4

This week the cast worked on the opening sequence to the play with movement director Imogen Knight.

Phoebe Allies also came in with her costume designs, and a miniature mock-up of the real set for the round was brought in.

Time is running out and production is swift...

Rehearsal Room Notes: Week 3

Rehearsal 1

This week the group began work on staging the first scenes of the play, trying out different ways for their character to move around the stage and getting used to performing in the round. Throughout this process the cast discussed with Kelly what their characters were feeling at crucial points and how they would react to the space they were in and the people surrounding them.The set was rudimentary, but necessary to begin this process.

Rehearsal 2

In Thursday's rehearsal the group had the opportunity to work with vocal coach Gary Horner. He began by getting them to do an exercise beginning with everyone standing relaxed, eyes closed, imagining the sea. From this they started making the ss sound of waves, then moved through into a sh sound, then mm, then jj and then back to the mm sound by using pitch to help expand their depth of voice. Gary got the group to feel the tops of their heads and cheeks whilst doing this so that they could feel how the sounds created vibrations and what pitch was needed to create the most powerful vibration. Following this, they moved onto more traditional exercises to open up their lungs even further.

After this the group was taught a Slavic drinking song to which they added movement. All these exercises are important in the deveopment of the actors' voice awareness.

Jack Petchey Achievement Award

This term's award was given to Jim Tanner for his continued hard work in Heat&Light. Jim has decided the £200 prize money will be spent on set.

Rehearsal Photos

Tanya, Darren and Sharkey: