Throughout our rehearsal process, at the start of every lesson we would all come together and perform a variety of exercises that helped us expand our bodies and also to help us warm up our vocals. We followed a video from The National Theatre that went through the exercises which we followed.
The purpose of doing these exercises is to mainly help us be able to control our breathing whilst performing which allows longer sentences. The way this works is by allowing air to flow deeper into the body especially in the lungs which will allow me to be able to dig deeper for longer sentences
Controlling the breath is one of the most crucial parts in an actors day to day life. This is because performing on stage or going for an audition, the audience want to be able to see that you are able to maintain any nerves that you have. Nerves play a big part within an actors life, just before going on stage, the actor will most likely run through exercises like ours just so they can compose themselves and be ready for the piece.
I found this a crucial exercise in my rehearsal process because both monologues that I am performing have very long sentences with rare pauses in between.
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