Wicked gestures

I live literally down the road from the Bristol Hippodrome, so last night my mum and I went to see Wicked on its UK tour, with Ashleigh Grey as Elphaba, Emily Tierney as Glinda and Samuel Edwards as Fiyero. Of course it's illegal to take film or pictures of a theatre performance, but there's no law against doing gesture sketches of the actors!

This was quite an interesting experience, because in the dim lights I could hardly see what I was drawing - I had to depend mainly on how it felt to move the pencil, and that was a good learning experience. It was also a great study of acting, since theatre actors need to "telegraph" their actions much more clearly than film or TV actors to ensure they're read from the back of a theatre - it was especially good to study that with a cast as skilled and "animated" as this lot were. I highly recommend doing this next time you go to the theatre!

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