【英语时差8,16】Drama Schools 戏剧学校（在线收听）

Ever wondered how famous actors start out? Well, a lot of them go to drama school.We spoke to Murray Woodfield who is a theatre director but also teaches at a number of drama schools in London. He’s helped many students get into drama school. Wendy could go to one of the famous ones: RADA, which is the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Some of the famous people who’ve been there are Alan Rickman, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes. Central School of Speech and Drama is another one. Very good. Famous actors like Judy Dench and Peggy Ashcroft. There’s LAMDA. There’s Mountview. Or outside London there’s Guildford or the Bristol Old Vic. To get into drama school you have to audition for them. Auditions can take many forms. If it’s for one of the straight drama schools, it’s probable at first that you’ll have to do a two minute speech from a modern play and a two minute speech from a classical play – a classical would probably be something like Shakespeare. You’d have to learn it by heart, you’d have to interpret the character. You’d probably have to get some coaching from somebody who knew. You’d have to have a very clear voice and be emotionally truthful. There are far more people that audition than are actually accepted. You can only look to yourself and be the person you are and interpret the character the way you see it should be. And perhaps they see something magical in you and they choose you. As the performing language here is English, their English would have to be very good. I would say that would be the biggest drawback – you’d be competing with people whose English is their first language. However, as a person coming from another country and from perhaps another culture, you could bring something to it that they weren’t used to seeing. And they might think that what you were offering was wonderful and choose you.