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Training: The wicked whispers of agent “interest”

PKM — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:21:59 +0000

The third year has barely kicked off and drama school cafés and rehearsal rooms are consumed with talk of who has ‘interest’. Not tittle tattle about the latest flings and Friday night snogs, oh no – those conversations are long since gone.

There is a different sort of hearsay sweeping through the school corridors. It has the air o Read more ...

Gender, Race, Sexuality – Is what you can’t help holding you back?

JBR — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:10:39 +0000

Whatever your background is or who you are, there are times when every one of us feels like there is something working against us. Many actors and creatives come up against obstacles when trying to make it in the acting game. In this industry we cannot hide; our gender, our ethnicity, they all come into play, particularly in casting. But Read more ...

Camden People’s Theatre launches Sprint season

PKM — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 14:13:08 +0000

On Tuesday it will be launching its 14th Sprint season. Designed to help promote the work of new and emerging contemporary art companies and individuals, Sprint will see work from the likes of Forest Fringe, Ira Brand, Analogue, Greg McLaren (Stoke Newington Airport) and Michael Pinchbeck.

The programme is a typically eclectic mix, includ Read more ...

COMMENT: Sam Peter Jackson – Oscar the Grouch

PKM — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:01:00 +0000

Now I love an overpriced, pretentious burger as much the next creative living above his means, but gone are the days when I classed eating next to Darth Vader’s helmet in a chain owned by buffed-up action daddies as a taste of glitz and glamour.

COMPETITION: WIN pair of tickets to The Wizard of OZ

PKM — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:33:07 +0000

This competition has now closed

To mark our re-brand to Fourthwall Magazine incorporating The Drama Student, and Danielle Hope as our cover star, we have teamed up with the Really Useful Group to offer a pair of tickets to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz.

TS Eliot US/UK Exchange is back to inspire

PKM — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:15:03 +0000

Old Vic New Voices is returning with their inspiring transatlantic project, the TS Eliot US/UK Exchange, and organisers are on the lookout for enthusiastic artists to join forces with them.

Applications have now opened for the second year of this extraordinary project. 100 emerging actors, writers, directors and producers aged 21-30 years Read more ...

Sheila Hancock: Role Model

JBR — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:46:32 +0000

“Your first job in the profession indicates your career path. Kick off with Juliet at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and you are set fair for damehood. My first job after leaving RADA in 1951 was in twice-nightly repertory at the Theatre Royal, Oldham.”

Sheila Hancock in her own words reveals so much about the Read more ...

Royal Shakespeare & Swan Theatres in pictures

PKM — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:58:24 +0000

There are many reasons to give the new RSC buildings a visit. Here are just a few:-

Be part of history and visit the new development marking the RSC’s 50th birthday
The opening season is a combustible mix of Shakespeare, classical plays, new work and revivals
Behold the transf Read more ...

A new era begins for The Drama Student

PKM — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:25:09 +0000

It’s almost two years now since a group of actors got together and decided to launch the first ever printed magazine dedicated to drama students. The aim was to give a voice to those seriously pursuing a career in the industry through training, dispel the countless clichés, and to convey the very best advice and guidance. The Drama Studen Read more ...

The First Word: Her Time to Shine

PKM — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:09:26 +0000

In April I wrote to Phil Matthews, Editor of The Drama Student, to highlight the relative invisibility of older students in the magazine and the wider drama student world. I wasn't really expecting a reply, and I certainly wasn't expecting the challenge that Phil offered me – writing about my own experience for this column!
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