Just a quickie about this voice workshop I went to with fellow actress Emma. I don't know where she finds out about these things, but she's always inviting me along to something or other, which is great and saves me the job of seeking them out. This workshop was at the Cottlesloe (one of the National's theatres), actually inside the auditorium which didn't leave much room for joining in with the more physical exercises and warm-ups. This was the first let down, the second being that the material was all extremely basic and typical of Day 1 fodder at drama school. Yawn. The woman leading the workshop (I wish I knew her name...) was a voice coach working extensively in the field with renowned actors on important plays. She had three actors on stage with her as demonstrators, and these three had just finished whatever play was showing in the Olivier. The voice coach herself spoke impeccably clearly and as such advertised the merits of her work well. The actors less-so, in many ways, not because they weren't good orators, but because they admitted (when asked by an audience-member) that they didn't ever practise their voice exercises at home for 10 minutes every day as every good little actor should! What a relief!