Any work in Perth?
Sat, 15 June 2002, 08:08 pmWalter Plinge25 posts in thread
Any work in Perth?
Sat, 15 June 2002, 08:08 pmIs there any work in Perth for Teenagers? 14-16 years old? I love Perth but there is just nothing here for us. Are there really more oppertunities in sydney? is it worth considering moving there once we have finnished school? thx 4 any feed back.
Re: Any work in Perth?: a rant
Thu, 20 June 2002, 04:29 pm> Experience is so important for an Actor to develop their craft. If you really want to > take Acting serious - study it at Uni. Curtin Uni offers the best practical theatre > course in WA. Its the only tertiary course that puts on 20 shows a year in their > Upstairs Theatre, as well as 4-5 full-length main productions in the Downstairs > Theatre. I got an agent purely on the amount of shows I've down at Curtin Uni.
Hmmm... it's a petty point, but I'm a petty person, so I've gotta disagree with your assessment of which WA uni offers the best theatre course: To me, while Curtin may offer more in the way of extra-curricular theatre options for their theatre students (and much respect to them for it), in terms of the actual course it would seem that both Edith Cowan and Notre Dame are better options because they aren't weighed down to a communications degree and you can have more theatre content in your degree at both of those universities. Murdoch isn't that far behind either although both Murdoch and ECU seem to be a bit bogged down in English Lit academia.
Mind you, I currently doing an English Literature minor, so that kinda negates that a bit for me. Obviously you should take all opinions from uni students about the quality of their uni with a pinch of salt. Myself included, most uni students will relentlessly try to promote their degree in an attempt to get more people to recognise the good-ness of the course that they are doing so that their degree will be recognised by more people once they get out.
True.
Find a course that feels good to you. Or take my word for it: Notre Dame Uni offers the best practical theatre course in WA! :P
> ...and the very best advice I ever got? If you really want to take acting seriously, > DON'T study it at uni.
Not that I'm in any way an expert here and I mean no insult to actors who have developed their method purely through experience (some of my favourite Perth actors have developed that way), but it would seem to me that if your intention is to work consistently in theatre, wouldn't it be better to go and learn the acting craft (and other skills necessary to work in the industry) before jumping in the deep end? While university is not the only place one can go to learn these skills, it's definately one of the better places and at least you'll end up with a degree at the end of it. It depends if you definately want to pursue theatre full time no matter the lack of dosh or if you want to be able to consistently have enough money to eat.
If you've trained at a university level, you should have the necessary knowledge to produce your own theatre work. There are grants avaliable and if you market it well it is actually possible to make enough cash to eat. Financial success will probably not happen overnight, but if you work at creating and expanding your audience, you can eat.
In other words, I believe a theatre degree is not necessarily a pathway to instant theatrical success, which I think only comes with a combination of any of the following: working your ass off, luck, networking, extreme fear inspiring lust for success (even if it's hidden under a cool, collected surface), knowledge, talent, ideas, sexual favours to reviewers and/or casting agents, a successful long running pop music career or being picked up off the street by a passing TV exec in a shiny black limosuine (unlikely, but nonetheless a pleasant thought). And yes, even then work is perhaps sparse and you will suffer in crappy shift jobs. But at least having a degree in theatre will assist you in getting that work and for three years of your life you can justify sitting listening to The Doors or Syd Barrett for the fourth time this week while being far too drunk on red wine and trying to work other things our of your system with the simple excuse "I can because I'm a Performing Arts student".
It's OK. The Law students of the world expect that from you.
Anyway, I'm finished disagreeing with people and dribbling rubbish now.
Peace.
Tomás Ford
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Come and see The Pirates Of Penzance at Rockingham. Go on. Check the "Whats On" bit for details. Come on. It'll be good. I'm in it. Come on. Goooo on. comeoncomeoncomeoncomeon. I'll be looking for you in the audience. Staring into it. I will. You should come. You'll like it. If you're into musicallystuff. Come on. Coome on.
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Hmmm... it's a petty point, but I'm a petty person, so I've gotta disagree with your assessment of which WA uni offers the best theatre course: To me, while Curtin may offer more in the way of extra-curricular theatre options for their theatre students (and much respect to them for it), in terms of the actual course it would seem that both Edith Cowan and Notre Dame are better options because they aren't weighed down to a communications degree and you can have more theatre content in your degree at both of those universities. Murdoch isn't that far behind either although both Murdoch and ECU seem to be a bit bogged down in English Lit academia.
Mind you, I currently doing an English Literature minor, so that kinda negates that a bit for me. Obviously you should take all opinions from uni students about the quality of their uni with a pinch of salt. Myself included, most uni students will relentlessly try to promote their degree in an attempt to get more people to recognise the good-ness of the course that they are doing so that their degree will be recognised by more people once they get out.
True.
Find a course that feels good to you. Or take my word for it: Notre Dame Uni offers the best practical theatre course in WA! :P
> ...and the very best advice I ever got? If you really want to take acting seriously, > DON'T study it at uni.
Not that I'm in any way an expert here and I mean no insult to actors who have developed their method purely through experience (some of my favourite Perth actors have developed that way), but it would seem to me that if your intention is to work consistently in theatre, wouldn't it be better to go and learn the acting craft (and other skills necessary to work in the industry) before jumping in the deep end? While university is not the only place one can go to learn these skills, it's definately one of the better places and at least you'll end up with a degree at the end of it. It depends if you definately want to pursue theatre full time no matter the lack of dosh or if you want to be able to consistently have enough money to eat.
If you've trained at a university level, you should have the necessary knowledge to produce your own theatre work. There are grants avaliable and if you market it well it is actually possible to make enough cash to eat. Financial success will probably not happen overnight, but if you work at creating and expanding your audience, you can eat.
In other words, I believe a theatre degree is not necessarily a pathway to instant theatrical success, which I think only comes with a combination of any of the following: working your ass off, luck, networking, extreme fear inspiring lust for success (even if it's hidden under a cool, collected surface), knowledge, talent, ideas, sexual favours to reviewers and/or casting agents, a successful long running pop music career or being picked up off the street by a passing TV exec in a shiny black limosuine (unlikely, but nonetheless a pleasant thought). And yes, even then work is perhaps sparse and you will suffer in crappy shift jobs. But at least having a degree in theatre will assist you in getting that work and for three years of your life you can justify sitting listening to The Doors or Syd Barrett for the fourth time this week while being far too drunk on red wine and trying to work other things our of your system with the simple excuse "I can because I'm a Performing Arts student".
It's OK. The Law students of the world expect that from you.
Anyway, I'm finished disagreeing with people and dribbling rubbish now.
Peace.
Tomás Ford
----
Come and see The Pirates Of Penzance at Rockingham. Go on. Check the "Whats On" bit for details. Come on. It'll be good. I'm in it. Come on. Goooo on. comeoncomeoncomeoncomeon. I'll be looking for you in the audience. Staring into it. I will. You should come. You'll like it. If you're into musicallystuff. Come on. Coome on.
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