HOW NUCLEAR KIDS FOUGHT PETER PIPER

15.07.2011

The battle not for life, but for death unfolded in the rehearsal halls of NUCKIDS. Each participant gave his best, but the “Peter Piper”, who “picked a peck of pickled pepper” and did not want to be defeated. The powers were not equal, and the mythical Peter threatened the “atomic” children with overthrow, but Tatiana Solntseva came to the rescue… While the director Gulnara Golovinskaya was engaged in casting of the unconfirmed roles and trying to set the first mise-en-scene, the acting teacher Tatiana went to the harsh “battlefield” with the articulation of young talents that have already received their role. So Masha, Natasha, Nadia from Sosnovy Bor, Sasha from Nikolaev, Stanislav and Gleb from Angarsk, Lev Ilyich (so and no other way!) from Seversk, Blagovest from Bulgaria found themselves alone in the rehearsal room with proverbs and tongue twisters to improve their speech. After little gymnastics for facial muscles the kids started practicing their diction: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper. A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked”.  Whew! It was with the help of such daily trainings that the “atoms” had to learn how to say their lines from the stage not only with expressive intonation, but also loudly and clearly enough to be heard and understood.  “The spectator comes to the theater to see real life, to look at it from the outside, to experience strong emotions,” Tatiana Solntseva tells the children. – It is simply unacceptable to make him strain ears!”

All NUCKIDS participants had a chance to consolidate and develop the same skills during a workshop of stage speech with Natalya Goltyapina, a teacher at the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. “To make speech clear,” Natalia told “atoms”, “the main thing is to remember that vowels are the river, consonants are the banks”. And these banks should be not muddy, but solid, strong, to hold any amount of water. To strengthen the “banks” the young talents did a number of exercises, which they will have to repeat every day to speak clearly and well. The teacher also explained to Nuclear kids how to train the body and voice to speak and move at the same time beautifully. Well, now the kids have a serious homework! Also, there are 26 days left till the premiere of the musical…