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.
Falling Back - Rant to Beat all Rants
Fri, 21 June 2002, 07:42 pm> I'm following David Mamet's school thought with 'fall back' jobs - if you have a 'fall
> back' - YOU WILL FALL BACK.
I've been out of uni for three years and never once 'fallen back'. Yes, I have worked as an occupational therapist, but as I mentioned in my original post, this has freed me up far more to audition for things and participate in voice overs which my ex-Hayman, ex ECU or 'I'm not going to uni cause I want to be an actor' highschool graduate colleagues have had to pass up because they couldn't get out of their dish-washing shift because they would i) get fired or ii) not eat for the next four weeks if they didn't get the job and missed their shift. I just took sick or annual leave, and not only got paid for missing work, but got paid for the job that they didn't get.
Also, in all my training as an actor, the number one tip I've been given is to observe people and learn motivations of people completely different from yourself. Tom and Crispy - if you were cast in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' tomorrow, how would you have the first clue what someone on Lithium, or post electric shock treatment would be like? I know exactly - thanks to my fall back, I worked for 6 months on the locked wards in Graylands hospital. If you got cast in 'The Boys' in a week's time - how would you have any idea what that kind of poverty and abuse is like, hanging around with your upper-middle class acting buddies at uni? I worked in Rockingham with drug addicts and abused children for two years (I sincerely apologise and retract those comments if you have experienced these tragedies first hand - and I pray you haven't - I'm simply trying to illustrate a point). You may see it as 'falling back' - I see it as fodder, widening my emotional intelligence and character 'database'. By the way, in those two and a half years, I did numerous shows (paid and other wise), countless voiceovers, not to mention small-group coaching with Marcell Schmidz, Vivienne Garette, Julia Moody, dance classes, singing lessons with my WAAPA teacher, in addition to attending just about every show in Perth that I could make. Funded by - you guessed it - that 'fall back'.
> Give me a few more years and then maybe I might go back to uni and get a real degree
> and a real job
I don't have to, because I already have. I (probably) won't get bitter from the ongoing poverty and rejection because I feel I've taken care of that side of things. I can just spend the rest of my life pursuing what I really want to do - be an actor, and the best one that I can be. If I do change my mind, the alternative is already there and waiting for me, without another three years of self-inflicted poverty with people half my age.
> 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?
Absolutely - and learning your craft should be a lifelong thing for an actor. My comments refer to the fact that most people go to uni before they go for the drama institutions (WAAPA, NIDA, VCA, CPA). Most of the acting courses at these places are BAs in their own rights - why spend the three years before attending one of these getting another BA when you could spend the time broadening your horizons in far different areas which, in a BA majoring in theatre, you wouldn't otherwise get to explore?
I do love a good debate boys! Please don't take what I've written here as a 'Yah boo sucks. I'm better than all of you' - I don't want to get into an insulting mud slinging match, particularly with Crispian whom I respect and like immensely (don't know you Tomas - sorry). Nothing here has been intended as a personal jibe. I am, in truly poor debating style, using my personal experiences to illustrate this - that an alternative degree can free you up as an actor on so many levels, and, conversely, studying acting at uni, while fascinating and fun, can in fact undermine your potential and your career opportunities by the sheer poverty which it inflicts on you upon graduation.
See you on Sunday Crispy!
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> back' - YOU WILL FALL BACK.
I've been out of uni for three years and never once 'fallen back'. Yes, I have worked as an occupational therapist, but as I mentioned in my original post, this has freed me up far more to audition for things and participate in voice overs which my ex-Hayman, ex ECU or 'I'm not going to uni cause I want to be an actor' highschool graduate colleagues have had to pass up because they couldn't get out of their dish-washing shift because they would i) get fired or ii) not eat for the next four weeks if they didn't get the job and missed their shift. I just took sick or annual leave, and not only got paid for missing work, but got paid for the job that they didn't get.
Also, in all my training as an actor, the number one tip I've been given is to observe people and learn motivations of people completely different from yourself. Tom and Crispy - if you were cast in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' tomorrow, how would you have the first clue what someone on Lithium, or post electric shock treatment would be like? I know exactly - thanks to my fall back, I worked for 6 months on the locked wards in Graylands hospital. If you got cast in 'The Boys' in a week's time - how would you have any idea what that kind of poverty and abuse is like, hanging around with your upper-middle class acting buddies at uni? I worked in Rockingham with drug addicts and abused children for two years (I sincerely apologise and retract those comments if you have experienced these tragedies first hand - and I pray you haven't - I'm simply trying to illustrate a point). You may see it as 'falling back' - I see it as fodder, widening my emotional intelligence and character 'database'. By the way, in those two and a half years, I did numerous shows (paid and other wise), countless voiceovers, not to mention small-group coaching with Marcell Schmidz, Vivienne Garette, Julia Moody, dance classes, singing lessons with my WAAPA teacher, in addition to attending just about every show in Perth that I could make. Funded by - you guessed it - that 'fall back'.
> Give me a few more years and then maybe I might go back to uni and get a real degree
> and a real job
I don't have to, because I already have. I (probably) won't get bitter from the ongoing poverty and rejection because I feel I've taken care of that side of things. I can just spend the rest of my life pursuing what I really want to do - be an actor, and the best one that I can be. If I do change my mind, the alternative is already there and waiting for me, without another three years of self-inflicted poverty with people half my age.
> 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?
Absolutely - and learning your craft should be a lifelong thing for an actor. My comments refer to the fact that most people go to uni before they go for the drama institutions (WAAPA, NIDA, VCA, CPA). Most of the acting courses at these places are BAs in their own rights - why spend the three years before attending one of these getting another BA when you could spend the time broadening your horizons in far different areas which, in a BA majoring in theatre, you wouldn't otherwise get to explore?
I do love a good debate boys! Please don't take what I've written here as a 'Yah boo sucks. I'm better than all of you' - I don't want to get into an insulting mud slinging match, particularly with Crispian whom I respect and like immensely (don't know you Tomas - sorry). Nothing here has been intended as a personal jibe. I am, in truly poor debating style, using my personal experiences to illustrate this - that an alternative degree can free you up as an actor on so many levels, and, conversely, studying acting at uni, while fascinating and fun, can in fact undermine your potential and your career opportunities by the sheer poverty which it inflicts on you upon graduation.
See you on Sunday Crispy!
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