Health and safety

Health and Safety

Warm ups  

Warm ups are so vital because it protects us from harming ourselves during our performances and rehearsals. For example, doing physical warm ups like stretching arms etc. potentially protects from something like pulling a muscle.

Other forms/ types of warm ups that we put in practice are vocal warm ups. These warm ups are also key because it helps with our speech, particularly our articulation, and clarity of our voices when speaking on stage. The sort of practices that we do is humming and pretending to chew imaginary chewing gum in our mouths, which really helps with exercising our mouths. We also partake in a lot of tongue twisters that are good for enunciation. For example, 'red lorry, yellow lorry', She sells sea shells on the sea shore' etc. We work on our voice projection as well by choosing one of our lines from the play and shouting as loud as we can, almost as if we are trying to be heard from a hill away, this practice is useful as it guarantees when we are performing we are sure even the person sitting in the far back row will be able to hear us.

Health and safety Risk Assessment

In the college theatre we have to be extremely cautious of the fact that it is very dark backstage and we have to watch out for all hazardous things like all the wires that are on the floor so people don't trip. There are also ladders, desks and boxes where people could potentially bump into.  We also have to be careful of he wings backstage that are very small and hard to notice.

Contrary to the college theatre, the shaw theatre has extremely large/long wings backstage that can also prove to be problematic as they drag on the floor so when us actors are back and fourth off stage in the dark we could trip unknowingly. Another health hazard could also be all the obstacles left backstage left and right (chairs and tables) could injure us actors when we are crossing corridors and moving from different doors when transitioning into different scenes.