TO YOUNG ACTORS; SASHA BINDI ETC
Tue, 22 June 2004, 05:13 pmWalter Plinge16 posts in thread
TO YOUNG ACTORS; SASHA BINDI ETC
Tue, 22 June 2004, 05:13 pmTo Sasha Luke Bindi etc etc
OK kids, you all seem (with perhaps the exception of Luke) to be incapable of extracting the good advice and answers to your questions from what you view (incorrectly) to be critisism. In the interests of attempting to end all this godawful and increasingly boring sniping, let me try to help;
IF YOU ARE YOUNG (IE UNDER 18ISH) AND YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTOR;
1. posting on this board and asking for a part will not work;
2. agents will rarely be interested in you (especially in Perth);
3. there are unlikely to be many parts for you to audition for at your age;
SO
4. find a reputable school and take a whole bunch of classes, get better and learn about your craft;
5. look at the auditions on this page, call the number, book a time, prepare a couple of pieces and go try out. Please note, the directors will not call you, even if you post on this board and ask them to, you have to call them;
6. look at the Companies section of this page, ring your closest one and ask if there are any auditions on. If not, ask if you can help out in some way so by the time there are auditions they like you and might cast you;
7. form your own company, find your own scripts, get your mates together, rehearse and perform, in the backyard if necessary.
8. do all of the above over and over and over and over and over again, be nice to people and cross your fingers.
Sucess in this business is (arguably) about 10% talent, 60% opportunity (which you can make yourself) and luck (which you can't) and 30% who you know, or, more importantly, who knows you and what your reputations is.
The one rule overriding all others is BE PROACTIVE! Go out and find or make your opporuntities. No-one will hand them to you.
Some of you have burnt some bridges on this board, not a good idea, especially because, as has been pointed out, some of the people you have annoyed might be sitting in the chair on the other side of the table at your next audition. But try anyway.
Get ready for an awful lot of rejection, its the most common experience actors have and one we all share. But try anyway.
Break a leg.
Now please go away.
Leah M
OK kids, you all seem (with perhaps the exception of Luke) to be incapable of extracting the good advice and answers to your questions from what you view (incorrectly) to be critisism. In the interests of attempting to end all this godawful and increasingly boring sniping, let me try to help;
IF YOU ARE YOUNG (IE UNDER 18ISH) AND YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTOR;
1. posting on this board and asking for a part will not work;
2. agents will rarely be interested in you (especially in Perth);
3. there are unlikely to be many parts for you to audition for at your age;
SO
4. find a reputable school and take a whole bunch of classes, get better and learn about your craft;
5. look at the auditions on this page, call the number, book a time, prepare a couple of pieces and go try out. Please note, the directors will not call you, even if you post on this board and ask them to, you have to call them;
6. look at the Companies section of this page, ring your closest one and ask if there are any auditions on. If not, ask if you can help out in some way so by the time there are auditions they like you and might cast you;
7. form your own company, find your own scripts, get your mates together, rehearse and perform, in the backyard if necessary.
8. do all of the above over and over and over and over and over again, be nice to people and cross your fingers.
Sucess in this business is (arguably) about 10% talent, 60% opportunity (which you can make yourself) and luck (which you can't) and 30% who you know, or, more importantly, who knows you and what your reputations is.
The one rule overriding all others is BE PROACTIVE! Go out and find or make your opporuntities. No-one will hand them to you.
Some of you have burnt some bridges on this board, not a good idea, especially because, as has been pointed out, some of the people you have annoyed might be sitting in the chair on the other side of the table at your next audition. But try anyway.
Get ready for an awful lot of rejection, its the most common experience actors have and one we all share. But try anyway.
Break a leg.
Now please go away.
Leah M
Re: TO YOUNG ACTORS; SASHA BINDI ETC
Thu, 24 June 2004, 11:46 pmSasha Farrell wrote:
> believing in yourself is all that matters i think..stuff
> what these people say :P hehe
> that'll get me another load of shitty abuse ..:P
Yes but it's no good just believing in yourself while you do nothing positive or pro-active, that's just the same as just believing in a dream that hasn't got a hope in hell. I think that's whats so sad about a lot of these (mainly teenage girls) posts, I'm sure they don't mean any harm but then again on the other hand they are doing nobody any good either. I don't hate anyone for posting those types of notes, I just find it sad because everyone else seems to hate them for it and it really is all quite pointless.
You have to really get off your behind and do something first, and then that's when you also need to believe in yourself to make it work.
Sasha, I certainly don't want to give you abuse for sharing your opinions, but I wish you would extend that courtesy to everyone else. I was really resentful of the way every post you wrote, and there have been a lot of them this week, was rude and angry and disgusting. Then at last I saw one post that seemed genuinely polite and appropriate, but then you dropped back to the ugly language again. I thought for a moment there there was someone I might like to get to know (I'm from an Irish background too) but then it disappeared. I'd really prefer it if all of the disussion remained relevant to theatre, and we treated everyone respectfully even if we disagree with what they say. And that includes people like me who don't write much but like to read messages. There's no pleasure in it if I'm not being respected, and find myself having to read filth and bitchy fighting.
Thank you.
Carolyn
> believing in yourself is all that matters i think..stuff
> what these people say :P hehe
> that'll get me another load of shitty abuse ..:P
Yes but it's no good just believing in yourself while you do nothing positive or pro-active, that's just the same as just believing in a dream that hasn't got a hope in hell. I think that's whats so sad about a lot of these (mainly teenage girls) posts, I'm sure they don't mean any harm but then again on the other hand they are doing nobody any good either. I don't hate anyone for posting those types of notes, I just find it sad because everyone else seems to hate them for it and it really is all quite pointless.
You have to really get off your behind and do something first, and then that's when you also need to believe in yourself to make it work.
Sasha, I certainly don't want to give you abuse for sharing your opinions, but I wish you would extend that courtesy to everyone else. I was really resentful of the way every post you wrote, and there have been a lot of them this week, was rude and angry and disgusting. Then at last I saw one post that seemed genuinely polite and appropriate, but then you dropped back to the ugly language again. I thought for a moment there there was someone I might like to get to know (I'm from an Irish background too) but then it disappeared. I'd really prefer it if all of the disussion remained relevant to theatre, and we treated everyone respectfully even if we disagree with what they say. And that includes people like me who don't write much but like to read messages. There's no pleasure in it if I'm not being respected, and find myself having to read filth and bitchy fighting.
Thank you.
Carolyn
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