Monday, June 16, 2014
I recently interviewed Arts Ed-trained Nathan Wright, a young actor who’s doing well and has just come out of an eighteen month stint in BBC’s Doctors. In passing he told me that he had…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, June 12, 2014
I recently attended a rather jolly party at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art to launch three new books all written by RADA staff, badged by RADA and published by Methuen Drama which is …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:09AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Only one actor in 50 earns more than £20,000 a year from acting – according to the recent Casting Call Pro survey which also found that over three quarters of actors earn less than £5,00…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, June 5, 2014
NT Connections really is a fine scheme. I know I say this every year but it strikes me afresh each summer just how well it works as education, training and development on so many levels. Ju…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, June 2, 2014
I’m at the Ambassadors Theatre and it’s fizzing like good champagne with young people, actors, directors, facilitators, initiators, funders and more. But we’re not there for a performa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMThursday, May 29, 2014
Last week I popped into Little Angel Theatre – always a treat because it’s one of the loveliest venues in London. This time, however, I was there not to see a show, but in the quietR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMTuesday, May 27, 2014
Fortune Theatre, London: This show presents the achievements of 30 graduates of Central's two MAs in stage acting - 15 have done the classical course and 15 the contemporary. And it fal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMMonday, May 26, 2014
Although I write extensively about fiction for young readers elsewhere, I don’t usually cover it in The Stage. Now a new title for which I’m going to make an exception has arrived on my …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AMFriday, May 23, 2014
Susan Elkin looks at the wide range of training choices and analyses their pros and cons
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:19PMThursday, May 22, 2014
In 1977 I started a new job teaching English in a girls’ secondary school in Kent. Portrait of Margarita by Ruth M Arthur (1968) was one of the sets of class novels in the stock…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMMonday, May 19, 2014
Criterion Theatre, London: The 23 students in this showcase are somewhat ill-served by the strange choice of just five pieces, most of which seem to require high levels of sustained tension.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMEarlier this year I went to Exeter to visit Cygnet Training Theatre and wrote about it for The Stage. I wanted to see what is probably the UK’s smallest drama training provider in action …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:22AMFriday, May 16, 2014
Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury: Video projection, occasional trombone continuo, filmed silhouettes, sparky audience interaction, messages held up on placards and a great deal of expressive d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMThursday, May 15, 2014
I’m hearing so much about off-stage apprenticeships (internships, trainee posts – a rose by any other name) at the moment that I’m seriously beginning to wonder whether this is a way f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:01AMMonday, May 12, 2014
I met Royal Central School of Speech and Drama student Jordan Blackwood at the Royal Albert Hall last year. It was the launch of Central’s Accidental Festival and he was executive coordina…
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Criterion Theatre, London: This unusually structured showcase gets round the problem of trying to demonstrate the talents of 47 students in less than an hour by offering just nine group piec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:38PMCriterion Theatre: It's a most welcome change to see a showcase featuring so many powerfully solid men and including so much stunningly good dancing. Congratulations to the people who h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMThursday, May 8, 2014
Last week I took the District line westward to Chiswick to revisit Arts Ed. It’s nearly three years since I’ve been there and I was keen to see the brand spanking new 200 seat AndrewR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford: Mobile, scenic turquoise silk screens, intriguing boxes, puppets in several sizes and atmospheric music ranging from Elizabethan folksy via lyrical symphoni…
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The more of this sort of thing which happens the better because there is still a massive dearth of good career information for young people wanting to work in the creative industries other t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:34AMThursday, May 1, 2014
If you’re thinking of auditioning at any level from securing a place at drama school all the way through to being seen for a plum part in the West End – then don’t go ahead…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:45AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Arts Depot, London: Pulsing with energy, music and imagination, this show is a splendid showcase for four hugely talented actors - although of course that isn't the intention of this sl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMIt can’t have escaped your attention that last week was the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. The Stage themed last week’s paper on it and there was masses of coverage elsewher…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:37AMFriday, April 25, 2014
Criterion Theatre: This entertaining showcase contains a lot of laughter and it's a real pleasure to see some unusual, mature choices of material including Shakespeare, Ayckbourn, Cowar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:53PMSusan Elkin talks about why every child should experience Shakespeare
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMThursday, April 24, 2014
I annoyed a lot of people here earlier this year by arguing that children should be taught a little theatre etiquette because, although we want a lively response, it is also useful if the au…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:17AMMonday, April 21, 2014
I recently had the pleasure of seeing English National Ballet School’s My First Ballet: Coppelia at the Peacock Theatre – along with hundreds of families. Did I say families? Well yes, t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:39AMThursday, April 17, 2014
Interesting things are going on at the rebuilt Liverpool Everyman. Not least its new Young Everyman Playhouse (YEP) company which has replaced Everyman Youth Theatre with a much wider range …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMMonday, April 14, 2014
Greenwich Theatre, London: Gran (Pauline Goldsmith) is entertaining her grandchildren with an elaborate game of pirates in this original, funny, rhythmic piece, which, among other things, ce…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMSo what does it mean to live in Kent whether you’ve just arrived or whether, like me, you’ve been here for decades? Last week I went to the Marlowe Theatre to find out. The Garden of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:37AMFriday, April 11, 2014
Polka Theatre, London: This robust and original piece is about confronting demons, whether that means living with the fear of what is happening to your dad in a 2014 war zone or facing the M…
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