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'...
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