New Poll - A Matter of Degrees
Sat, 20 Nov 2004, 05:28 pmcrgwllms4 posts in thread
New Poll - A Matter of Degrees
Sat, 20 Nov 2004, 05:28 pmNew poll topic:
Do directors take into account whether you have a theatre/arts degree?
The Poll-tergeist
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Re: New Poll - 40 Degree heat
Wed, 24 Nov 2004, 12:41 amStuart wrote:
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> Once again, a poll for the pros!! I thought this site was for
> Community Theatre
Hi Stuart
Just to let you know that I don't discriminate amongst the poll topics submitted...when it's time to change the poll I trawl through the lists of topics (unfortunately, the mechanics of reading and comparing them is a bit laborious due to the poll engine layout) and as soon as I find one that looks interesting it goes up. Occasionally I use my editorial mandate to edit or re-word them, usually make up a catchy title, and I reckon about 25% of the time I devise totally new ones according to the discussion topic of the day in the forums.
For the ones I compose, I apologise if they don't seem relevant. Please help me out by submitting more suggestions for me to pick from.
For ones like the current topic, I have no idea whether the author was a pro actor or a community theatre actor, but the way I read the question it never occurred to me that you might not think it relevant to community theatre...I thought the question was aimed at ALL theatre. If not, please answer it as if it WAS...then we'll get some idea of how relevant having a degree is to being cast in a community show.
In my experience, there are a hell of a lot of people with a theatre degree who never become professional actors...look at the number graduating EVERY YEAR from Curtin, UWA, Murdoch, Edith Cowan, WAAPA...and then compare that number to the number of professional actors you reckon there are in Perth (maybe 250 in total, of which only about 15% are actually working at the moment.) The two figures just don't correlate.
So chances are, when you hold an audition for a community show, you'll be getting non-professional actors turn up who nevertheless have qualifications. So the question the poll is asking you is...does it matter to you?
The Poll-tergeist
PS for what it's worth, my opinion is that experience counts wherever you get it from...that's all a degree is really, a couple of years of concentrated experience.
>
> Once again, a poll for the pros!! I thought this site was for
> Community Theatre
Hi Stuart
Just to let you know that I don't discriminate amongst the poll topics submitted...when it's time to change the poll I trawl through the lists of topics (unfortunately, the mechanics of reading and comparing them is a bit laborious due to the poll engine layout) and as soon as I find one that looks interesting it goes up. Occasionally I use my editorial mandate to edit or re-word them, usually make up a catchy title, and I reckon about 25% of the time I devise totally new ones according to the discussion topic of the day in the forums.
For the ones I compose, I apologise if they don't seem relevant. Please help me out by submitting more suggestions for me to pick from.
For ones like the current topic, I have no idea whether the author was a pro actor or a community theatre actor, but the way I read the question it never occurred to me that you might not think it relevant to community theatre...I thought the question was aimed at ALL theatre. If not, please answer it as if it WAS...then we'll get some idea of how relevant having a degree is to being cast in a community show.
In my experience, there are a hell of a lot of people with a theatre degree who never become professional actors...look at the number graduating EVERY YEAR from Curtin, UWA, Murdoch, Edith Cowan, WAAPA...and then compare that number to the number of professional actors you reckon there are in Perth (maybe 250 in total, of which only about 15% are actually working at the moment.) The two figures just don't correlate.
So chances are, when you hold an audition for a community show, you'll be getting non-professional actors turn up who nevertheless have qualifications. So the question the poll is asking you is...does it matter to you?
The Poll-tergeist
PS for what it's worth, my opinion is that experience counts wherever you get it from...that's all a degree is really, a couple of years of concentrated experience.