Never underestimate the thorough, practical theatre arts training received by adult amateurs in operatic societies who can’t quite afford to give up the day-job. I’ve just seen Cambridge Operatic Society’s lovely Ruddigore at the Cambridge Corn Exchange.
Aged 17-25 and interested in some sort of backstage performing arts career from prop-making, to directing or from sound management to marketing?
The Dream: An Actor’s Story is one of the most insightful and informative theatrical memoirs I’ve ever read. If you are a student or a theatre goer with an intelligent interest in what it’s really like to be an actor, how the rehearsal process works and what first nights are like then Leigh Lawson’s book should be at the top of your reading list.
Today (19 November) is World Toilet Day. So it’s a jolly good time to air the age-old problem of lavatory facilities at performance venues or lack of them - especially for women. And yes, this is a training issue because it’s quite clear to me - and any other woman who has ever queued a quarter of an hour or more for an interval pee in theatre or concert hall - that most designers of loos are men in woeful need of training.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has identified Tinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance as one of eight ‘models of excellence’ - that means it has good and innovative community, education and ‘knowledge transfer systems’ (aka as good teaching). It is something of a feather in Trinity Laban’s cap that it is the only specialist arts organisation amongst the eight.
So what does Trinity Laban do to have attracted this accolade?
Who says engineering and the arts are incompatible?
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