Theatre Warm-Ups
Hey, friends,
As some of you may have heard, I was recently involved with a production of Euripides’ Medea, which I translated earlier this year. As part of this project, I rediscovered some of my favourite theatre warm-ups (I also learnt several new ones!) Thus, I thought I might share a few of those with you. I believe all of them are enjoyed best when performed in a call-and-response form, i.e., someone leads the cast by saying a single line, and the rest of the actors and actresses respond by either repeating the line or saying the next line in the warm-up (in case they all know it). That being said, please enjoy the following warm-ups:
A Classic Tongue Twister
Oh, what to-do to die today at a minute or two ’til two
A thing distinctly hard to say, yet harder still to do
For they’ll beat a tattoo at twenty to two
With a rattatta tattatta tattatta too
And the dragon will come when he hears the drum
At a minute or two ’til two today
At a minute or two ’til two.
Lucia’s masterpiece
Shit damn shit damn fucka damn damn,
Some motherfucker just fucked my man.
I can fuck a motherfucker better than a motherfucker
Shit damn shit damn fucka damn damn.
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado
To sit in solemn silence
On a dull, dark 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
Shay Shay
Shay shay coolay,
Shay shay coolay,
Shay shay cofisa,
Shay shay cofisa,
Cofisa la la,
Cofisa la la,
La la kee la la
La la kee la la
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and my new favourite…
Aleksa’s Old Friend
TBA