Helllooo 2015/ Manchester Met Audition 2.0/BSA audition/ tones more

Hello All!

First things first- HAPPY FRICKING NEW YEAR- hope you all had a good 'un.

Now many of you may be complaining that I haven't wrote anything in a while. Thats because I had nothing to write about, with my boring job and lack of auditions. BUT NOW I only work saturdays and boy do I have alot going on.

I've had two auditions and two workshops and it's only the first week of january. My First Audition I had was Manchester Met, which I won't go into huge detail about as you can refer back to my first audition post of the school (see Jan 2014). However this time I experianced the weirdest thing yet.to.date.

It was in the audition (to fill you in it's important to know that at Man Met you do your peices in front of a small group who are also auditioning) and the first girl got up. She was doing Constance from King John as her Shakespeare. During the speech she pulled out a chunk of her hair, scattered it on the floor and kept repeating "I'm not mad".

Personally I thought otherwise.

But then for her second peice, the whole monologue was about her and her mates waxing their viginas, and halfway through her pretended to stare at a lazered vigina and grinned.

I was not prepered for that.

The girl next to me was in hysterics, the lady on the pannel was trying so hard to keep her face straight that she looked like a lipless tomato. 

So it any of you guys meet a girl called Julia doing a King John speech- brace yourself.

Still yet to hear from that.

I had BSA yesterday- got the rejection letter today 😁. But to be honest I enjoyed the day so much that I'm happy to have the oppotunity to go back there again 😄.

I'm going to reserve a whole post so I can talk about that audition process propperly so you guys know what to prepare.

Also (in other news); I started the Contact Young Company programme yesterday, which was fabulous! If you don't know Contact theatre is a contempary theatre in Manchester and hold a young persons company that you have to audition for, and luckily I got in along with 4 others. I have been told by several people that it is the place to go if you are serious about working in theatre and need experiance, because they treat you like professional actors and there is a high chance to get work out of it.

Also just had a workshop with Ian Smith from the Television Company in Leeds, I won a place via the ideastap website. You had to learn a bit from a play called he's talking by Nicholas Wright. It's a really interesting play and I'm very tempted to use it as part of my audition peices.

Ian Smith I found him very rude but very funny, and I can see that he's great at bringing people out of their shells.

It might lead on to something else but I'm not sure if I'd want to do that.

Got My Royal Conservatoire of Scotland audition next week which I'm very excited for. Then LAMDA after!

Cannot bloody wait.

Adios then, 

Got to hop on a train. 

Terri :D

Summer Time Maddness (It begins...)

Hey All!

So it has been a while since I wrote, I think the main reason for that is that after two months of A level exams I got kinda sick of writing the contents of my brain down. But after a three week break I'm back with avengance on working towards getting into drama school! 

Not that I haven't done any research since my A levels, I have, honest.

Since thoses horrific exams I have been to three open days, to name them:

1. Mancheter Metropolitain

2. Birmingham school of Acting

3. Royal Central school of speech and drama.

Now I know that I applied to Manchester last year (check out the January post on the audition) but, in going to the open day, I just wanted to clarify my infomation about the place. 

And, to be honest with you, compared to the other two drama schools, it dosen't really hold up to standards.

The next open day I attended was Birmingham School of Acting. Now until recently I didnt even know that this school exsisted until I found it on the Drama UK website, and by the sounds of it, not many people have either.

But don't let this fool you into thinking that this is a bad school. The School itself is set inside the Millenium point building, which is a five min walk from the Bull Ring. The building is surounded by surrealist gradens and a playground for children (its very cool, and the play ground made me want to be a kid again). 

As the course is accredited by Drama UK, it has all the features of the usual drama school course at BA hons. And while the place is small compared to other places, it has everything you need for a rounded acting education. While I missed the tour of the accomadation (yes they do have accomadation), I was deeply impressed with the talk that the head tutor gave and the discussion that the pupils gave (willingly) afterwards in a side room at the end. And in that 20 min chat with them, I gained more knowledge than any previous audition had given me.

Note: One way I judge the sutiability of a course is by what the current students say about it openly, and not what they are told to say by a tutor.

Another great thing about the drama school is that because few people have heard of it. Because - lets be honest - who expects Birmingham to have a state of the art Drama School in it's city center. Then less people apply to it, meaning that you have more of a chance getting in.

^ Oh and did I mention that they have a huge cinema in the floor above! Now that's impressive.

The other open day which I attended was at Royal Central school of speech and drama. Now while I knew about this course last year (as the application is done through UCAS) I didn't apply, mainly because the audition process (compared to others) is terrifying. Not only do they say that you have to learn two set shakespeare peices and a comtempary but also two unacompanied songs from musicals. And I felt - last year - that the process would of been too much for me to handle with such little audition experiance.

But this year, I want to have a crack at it.

The school itself is beautiful, as well as the suroundings. The place feels like it should be in a surburban area in Cornwall or Devon and not at all in the middle of the Capital. 

I realise that I keep going on about the buildings of the places, but personally I prefer working in a beautiful enviroment than a urban junk yard.

The place itself is huge, they have a massive red seat theatre near the front door and a dainty little café that serves sandwiches and cakes at a decent price.

They have plenty of studios and a good libary.

I loved it. When I walked in there, it felt like home.

The only down side of Central is that they have a limited camera and radio department which is kinda essential to an actors traing these days.

In terms of the audition process there, the reason they said that they make it so tough, is to stop people just coming in and wasting their time with what they think will get them in.

Which makes sense, I guess.

The head of the Acting, who I have to say was dressed very drammatically in all black (i.e black skinnies, a black deep v neck top and a black tuxedo jacket) seemed to have an issue with "privalleged" people, i.e to him if you have done LAMDA examinations (which I have done) then you are privalleged and don't deserve as much of a place. 

That, I found a little, odd. But oh well I'm not put off.

And thats all I've got done so far, I am planning of booking a few more open days over the next few weeks, namely for  Drama Centre and GSA. But now I am going to start the dreaded search for modern monologues.

I've had no luck so far.

Will also be posting a database of Drama Schools and the essential infomation on them within the next few days.

Until then,

Adios,

Terri ;D x