warm up

Every morning I walk into the rehearsal hall

and make myself a cup of tea.

At 10am we start our physical warm up

Evie calling out exercises and counting out loud

people groaning 

cracking jokes

and trying to get their bodies ready for the day's work.

We laugh a lot 

at each other

at ourselves

while Evie tries to keep us all focused and on task

 stretching everything out

easing out the cricks and pains from the day before.

Poor Ev.

She's used to working with a room full of well behaved ballerinas,

not a bunch of loud and silly actors like us.

At some point we do the plank

(so not my favourite)

and while we hold this horribly painful position 

we sing

all together we sing a silly song

until the minute is up and we can stop doing the wretched plank.

Today

Hey Big Spender

rang through the rehearsal hall

girls voices singing the melody

guys voices blending into various harmonies and percussive sounds

it was very impressive, especially for 10:30 in the morning.