Lucy Kerbel on 100 Great Plays for Women by National Theatre - Podcast

Lucy Kerbel on 100 Great Plays for Women by National Theatre



Hi!

So as might be expected I am very busy at the moment learning my monologues for Drama School auditions. But during my research I came across this brilliant podcast by the National Theatre on plays that are female dominated. And I thought that you guys would also benifit from listening to it too!

Anyway enjoy, Im going away to London this weekend and will be watching the musical Matilda! Also 1 year til I go see Hamlet starring Benidict Cumberbatch. I cannot wait!

Bye,

Terri ;D

UCAS and CUKAS drama school applications

Hi beautiful thespians,
So it is coming up to that time of year again when its time to start getting those Drama school applications in! I'm so excited and nervous already about it all. Especially because up until an hour ago I couldn't find a sutible monologue as a contempary. But finally I've got it. Anyway this post is a little database on some of the drama school's available via the UCAS and CUKAS website's with some basic infomation. Now with UCAS and CUKAS there is a £16 fee (CUKAS) and a £23 fee (UCAS). You can only apply to up to five school's on UCAS. This inclueds any other university course's that you might be applying for.

UCAS drama school's:
1. The Royal Central school of speech and drama.
UCAS institution code- C35
Course ( BA Acting) code- W410
Audition fee - £50
Audition process- 1 contempary (post 1960's) and 2 shakespeare monologues chosen from a list on their website. Max of 2 minute duration. Also two songs needed,  one from a musical with accompanying piano music and another song unaccompanied. (Although from what I understand the singing part of the audition is for the musical BA.)
Audition is at the school.

2. Drama Center
^Under the name of University of the Arts in UCAS
UCAS institution code- U65
Course code- W410
Audition fee- £45
Audition process- 1 contempary (post 1830) and 1 shakespeare monologue, both with a maximum of 3 minute duration, dualogues are also accetable (you must have a partner) for both speaches.
Audition is at the school.

3, Guildford school of acting (GSA)
^ Under the name of University of Surrey in UCAS.
UCAS institution code- S85
Course code- W410
Audition fee- £35
Audition process - 1 contempary speech (post 1950) and one classic monologue (pre 1800). Also you must bring a sonnet with you,  you don't have to learn it. They should not exceed a 3 minute duration.
Initial audition's are held in:
·Belfast
·Cardiff
·Dublin
·Exeter
·Edinburgh
·Newcastle
·Manchester
·Guildford (I.e the school) + all recall's.

4. Manchester school of acting
^Under the name of Manchester Metropolitain university in UCAS.
UCAS institution code- M40
Course code- W411
Audition fee- £45
Audition process- 1 contempary (post 1950) speech, 1 shakespeare speech and another monologue of your choice. All should not exceed 2 minute duration.
Audition's held at the school.

5. Rose Bruford
UCAS Institution code- R51
Course code- W410
Audition fee-£45
Audition process- Two speaches, one classic monologue and one contempary (I presume as the school's website does not give much infomation.)
Audition is held at the school.

Other UCAS school's include Italia Conti and East 15.

CUKAS school's:

1. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS)
CUKAS institution code- R58
Course code- W410
Audition fee- £45
Audition process- 1 Shakespeare speech and one contempary speech. All should not exceed a 3 minute duration.
Audition is held at the school.

2. Royal Welsh school of music and drama college.
CUKAS institution code- R59
Course code- 200F
Audition fee- £45
Audition process- 1 Shakespeare speech and one contempary speech (post 1950). And should not exceed a 2 minute duration.
Audition's held at:
· Cardiff (I.e the school) plus all recall's.
·London
·Edinburgh
·Belfast
·Manchester
Hope this helps people,
Cheerio,
Terri ; D

Dedication to Robin Williams

So I guess that you have already heard, but I was really shocked to hear that one of the best American Actors, Robin Williams,  has so suddenly passed away. He really was a true legend in my eyes.  With some of his greatest roles including Mrs Doubtfire and the teacher in Dead poet's society.
I hope to someday have a fraction of the skill and talent that he posessed.
Farewell Robin,  you are now free.
RIP xxx

Sun is shining in the sky, I think that this will be a beautiful day!

Hey fellow thespians,

So I know that you guys are still waiting for me to post a database of all the drama schools that Im applying to this year and to give you some infomation on them, but first I thought that I'd give you guys a quick update on whats happening at the moment in my life.

Firstly it is less than two weeks til my A level results arrive. And, lets face it, I kinda just want to vomit every time I think about it. I don't know what everyone elses thoughts/feelings are about results day but I wish you all the best for the traumatic hour that will be 6:00 am on the 14th of August.

As a postive I'm going to be heading down to Leeds festival soon and I'm compleatley buzzing to go. I know that Leeds fest has quite a bad reputation for drugs and theft, and fair enough as last year I had my sleeping bag stolen for no apparent reason :/ but I guess that that is part of its charm.

Another positive is that I've just been to the cinema to watch Guardians of the Galaxy, the new marvel movie staring Chris Pratt and Bradley Cooper. Now for thoes who haven't yet watched it I won't spoil the plot but the soundtrack is brilliant and Chris Pratt is a fabulous dancer!

And the last positive thing is… I'm going to see a total of 4 different shakespeare productions within the next year incuding… Benidict Cumberbatch's Hamlet at the Barbican next August!!!!!! IM SO EXCITED I cannot wait for 2015 to arrive!

I waited two hours in the online queue (a very english queue I might add) and I reckon its going to be compleatly worth it!

Of course I'm heading up to see the Hamlet at the Royal Exchange too (which was a quater of the price than the barbican production), Romeo and Juliet at the Victoria Baths in Manchester and Love Labour's Won (i.e Much ado about nothing) at the RSC. 

With the Love Labours Won show, I never intentionally bought tickets for that, what I am doing is going to a weekend of workshops held at the RSC to help with my performance of Shakespeare and the show was thrown in as a perk if the workshops there.

As you can see I'm using my Gap year to see as much theatre and movies as I can, including attending open days and going to drama school auditions to try and start my campaign to becoming an actress.

On drama school, Im still struggling trying to find the perfect contempary monologue, obviously I could use last years monologue for Port by Simon Stephens but I'm not certain I was able to showcase my skills well with that piece.

Anyway, as I'm on a packed train trying to write this. I guess that it would be wise to write some more later.

Adios,

Terri ;D xxx