WARM UP

Actors relax and warm up in order to be alert and ready to respond as they perform. Warm-ups help the actor not to be nervous.

PREPARING

• All serious actors do some sort of warm up before a rehearsal, audition, or performance.
• You must warm up vocally and physically.

WHY WARM UP?

• Would any athlete go and play a game without warming up? Of course not
• Warms ups also prepare your voice and body, and relax you before a performance.
• It will also help you appreciate your character more.

EXCERCISES

THE RAG DOLL

THE BACK BREAKER

VOCAL EXCERCISES

• Read the rhyme below with clarity and emphasis. Start off slowly, then increase your speed as you read it two more times. : To sit in solemn silence in a dull dock In a pestilential prison with a life long lock Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block.

VOCAL EXCERCISES

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