Friday, July 28, 2017
Planning is key to auditioning for drama schools. Paul Clayton reveals how you can increase your chance of success, and what might trip you
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We have been apart for a little while. But worry not. While my oft incoherent ramblings may not have graced the pages
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It wasn’t part of a career masterplan to stay away from the stage for nine and a half years. It just happened.
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A very talented young actor I have had the pleasure to mentor in his post-drama-school career is heading off on an eight-month
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My in-laws have descended for the weekend. They are charming and it’s always nice to see them, but like all guests they
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Nine years ago I had a touch of Kafka’s Dick at Watford Palace. For a variety of reasons, that was my last
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You’ve managed to find funding to help you in your dream of being an actor. You’ve scrimped and saved through drama school
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You might find it hard to believe when confronted by my aristocratic profile and noble bearing, but I was brought up in
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The end of winter can be the cruellest time. The silver gaudy lurex of panto has once more been packed into the
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Having been on a highly successful diet, and garnering many compliments on my new waistline, I am not in the mood for
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I’m having a remarkably productive day. I’ve just managed to complete the design for our Christmas card, a task that hangs over
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One of the most pressing problems when I was at drama school in the mid-1970s wasn’t how to get to the heart
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The sky over the stage darkens. Lightning flashes, thunder rolls and Humpty Dumpty precariously balances on the castle walls. Five rows back
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I like to get advice before taking any decision in life. Before deciding on any holiday hotel, I look at the star
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The day after moving into our new home, we began unpacking boxes with alacrity. By early afternoon it had all become too
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The fragrant and cake-baking “stage and TV stalwart” Jane Asher has accused young actors of being “snooty” about what they choose to
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At the age of 15, I did something that has been an increasingly rare event in my life since. I won a
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It’s a hot and moist Saturday afternoon and the chilled foods aisle of my local branch of Waitrose is an ideal place
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How many actors crave a regular job? Is it a deep-seated yearning within us? The same journey to work each day. Regular
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Two days after our country made what is probably the most monumental political decision of a generation, I’m getting out. To Europe.
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I know what you did last summer is not only the title of a schlock horror film from the 1990s, but also
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It’s early on a Tuesday morning and I’m heading into town to spend an hour or so in a glass booth being
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It’s not unheard of when attending a West End theatre to hear the odd audience moan. “I can’t find the toilet”, “The
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She’s reigned over us for 60 years. We all adore her. We’ve seen her at Balmoral on horseback. We’ve seen her with
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I had cause to write a biog the other day, and rather alarmed myself because I had to turn to IMDb to
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You may have heard the rumours. Actually, if they are being circulated by actors, you evidently can’t hear them. The dreaded question
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, January 15, 2016
On leaving drama school in the late 1970s, it was expected of us as actors that we would fall into employment and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, December 18, 2015
“Manners maketh the man.” I’d always had that down as advice from Polonius to Laertes, and if it had been, it might
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, November 27, 2015
This is the season when actors, singers, dancers, and even ‘people off the telly’ are reaching into cupboards for their largest suitcase.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, November 6, 2015
The Actors Centre is an absolutely fantastic place. Ask any actor and they will tell you that. Ask any successful actor where
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, October 15, 2015
There’s a campaign afoot and I do like a good campaign. It can’t have escaped you if you’re a member of the
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