Minimini ma minimini ma mini ma

There is a moment before every performance which is almost my favourite.  The whole cast come together on stage to do vocal warm-ups.  For me it is fifteen minutes where any distinction between principals and community chorus fades away. We get our tongues, lips and vocal chords round the sounds, consonants and vowels and a strangely marvellous noise fills the empty auditorium.  NTW sets out to create a community, and this is a time where I can feel it happening.