Friday, June 26, 2015
Alex Sharp’s recent Tony award for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time should bring hope to the heart of
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Most drama schools are quiet at this time of year. The students have gone off to earn their rent for next term
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The Atlantic Ocean seems virtually to have disappeared in recent years. People, ideas and organisations seem to pop up so readily on
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I don’t often seem to visit RADA so last week I went twice to make up for it. First I interviewed director
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Some of my best friends are casting directors. Yes, I know who they are. I’m well aware of what they do. I
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, May 29, 2015
This rather originally configured showcase presents 17 women and seven men, a gender imbalance which is unusual for Drama Studio. Working in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:44PMIt is time we stopped making artificial, arguably snobbish distinctions between musical theatre and opera, both in training and in the wider
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Sally Cookson’s delightful show Hetty Feather, based on Jacqueline Wilson’s novel of the same name, tours again from this July until April
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Sylvia Young’s motherly and self-deprecating manner belie the razor-sharp mind, grit and determination that led her to found what has become Britain’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMJane Maudsley trained as a mezzo soprano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, read music at the University of Sheffield, is a
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How many drama school shows do casting directors and prospective agents actually see? When I’m at these shows I am usually saddened
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Not all drama schools are created equal, and no two are alike. The variation across the 18 schools accredited by Drama UK
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Play texts – Oberon Modern Plays And still they come. The latest three titles in the Oberon Modern Plays series are Douglas
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Adventures in Wonderland – the children’s version of a double bill from Les Enfant Terribles booking at the Vaults in London’s Waterloo
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Drama school students are in shows. Lots of them. And of course they need as many people as possible to see them.
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Everyone knows that there are too many actors chasing too few jobs. Ours is an overcrowded industry and training trends have long
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Why do we continually underplay the enormous range of very marketable skills which quietly attach themselves to drama students during their training?
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Website – Audition Oracle This resource aims primarily to link singers with audition opportunities. You can sign up and create a profile
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So, working-class youngsters cannot afford to go to drama school at £9,000 a year plus subsistence. True? Well, actually no, it isn’t,
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This weak and disappointing showcase falls on a number of counts although it gives me no pleasure to say so. It’s a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMDrama schools seem suddenly to have woken up to the importance of teaching the future performers in their charge to manage their
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It’s a real joy to see a showcase that presents 16 – yes, 16 – talented men and 10 generally strong women. In many graduating classes,
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Happy birthday, Mr Shakespeare. God for England, Harry and St George. Even if you weren’t actually born on April 23, 1564, it’s
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I’m the first to criticise schools which rip off wannabe students by charging high sums for just a few minutes of audition
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Julian Chenery, founder of Shakespeare 4 Kidz, is not your stereotypical theatre impresario. He’s a big, fast-talking, tousled man who exudes no-nonsense
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Just how much do buildings affect the quality of training? I have visited drama schools, both accredited and non-accredited, all over the
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Watching 27 duologues in under an hour feels a bit like being at the wrong end of a theatrical machine gun, especially
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMAntony Sher is currently wowing RSC audiences (including me on press night a couple of weeks ago in Stratford) with his stellar
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I’m worried about children who are hugely talented performers and who happen to live in Scotland. They’re already losing out, and I
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Last week, within five days, I saw and wrote about Finborough Theatre’s Princess Ida, Central School of Speech and Drama’s acting (collaborative
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As soon as the stage fills with fops hamming up a devised prologue complete with exaggerated gestures and heightened RP I can
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