Stretch and Share
1990s-present · Chicago / New York
Also known as Personal Share, Check-In Warm-Up
Team stretches physically while one-by-one sharing something real from the week — a fight, a win, a worry — to seed scene material.
Known for
- Emotional opening for long-form rehearsals — gives scenes personal stakes.
- Teams that share well make better Harolds — the personal feeds the premise.
- Del Close insisted on this kind of ensemble check-in for his house teams.
- Common start-of-rehearsal ritual for house teams at iO, UCB, Annoyance.
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