As many of you will know, I’m writing this from Newcastle upon Tyne – and it’s RSC season up here. Almost all of our theatres are taken over by the good folks from Stratford for a couple of months.
Amongs some of the things they’re doing are a series of workshops on Voice and – naturally – I picked up on that. One particularly useful warm-ups for the voice then, straight from the RSC’s mouth:
- “36 thistle sticks”
- “66 distinguished, bespecticled boffins”
- “lots of hot coffee in a proper copper coffee pot”
and my favourite – to be whispered so that you really, really warm up the lips….
- “interplanetary auditory discrimination”
