So what do you tell a talented, theatre-loving student who wants to be an actor? Traditionally parents and teachers simply dowsed her or him in cold water by observing that actors spend most of their time “resting” and that accountancy (or whatever) would be better. Well obviously, that won’t do. It’s much more complex than that. We owe it to these young people to take their ability and ambition seriously.
First there’s the increasingly blurred difference between university and drama school. A university degree in theatre studies might be useful
