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ARTS DIARY: Theatre company shaping up for tour; Philip Key reports on how a theatre company gets fit for its first tour.(Features)

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From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20060215
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Byline: Philip Key

LIVERPOOL'S Ullaloom Theatre Company is likely to be one of the fittest in the country when it opens a new tour tomorrow. For that you can thank guest director Tanushka Marah.

Ms Marah, artistic director of Company Collisions, has been putting the cast through yoga exercises before each rehearsal.

And the early days of rehearsal were spent entirely on what she calls "actor training" including press-ups, sit-ups and voice work. "It gets the company in shape," she explains.

The show is Bram Stoker's Nightmare, Dracula, and was first staged last ...

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