【英语时差8,16】Drama Schools 戏剧学校

Ever wondered how famous actors start out? Well, a lot of them go to drama school.We spoke¹ 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 audition² for them. Auditions³ 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 truthful⁴. 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.

1 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

2 audition   

n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)

参考例句：

• I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音，可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
• At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初，他们说他太小，但后来他们叫他去试听。

3 auditions   

n.（对拟做演员、歌手、乐师等人的）试听，试音( audition的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Find modeling auditions, casting calls& acting auditions, all in one place. 找一个立体感试听，铸造呼叫和表演试听一体的地方。 来自互联网
• We are now about to start auditions to find a touring guitarist. 我们现在准备找一个新的吉他手。 来自互联网

4 truthful   

adj.真实的，说实话的，诚实的

参考例句：

• You can count on him for a truthful report of the accident.你放心，他会对事故作出如实的报告的。
• I don't think you are being entirely truthful.我认为你并没全讲真话。