tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36805318373860590872024-02-20T09:53:45.810-08:00Tanya Vital's BlogFrequently asked acting industry questions, News and more!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3680531837386059087.post-49900797824208091932015-10-21T04:04:00.006-07:002024-02-20T09:53:14.902-08:00Hamlette Nominated for the MVISA Awards at Black International Film Fest!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #666666;">I keep getting asked about </span><a href="http://www.rada.ac.uk/"><span style="color: magenta;">RADA</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> and the training I did there, which is great! But I feel its still way too early to properly reflect and comment fairly on my time there. I'm still processing my experience. It was <b>INTENSE! </b>(We went through some things man & some stuff). </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666;">It's taken me a long time to</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; line-height: 15.95pt;"> gather just a fraction of my thoughts. Advising someone about your personal experience of drama school isn’t easy. As "luvvie" as it sounds - drama training is about spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development, both for the individual and the ensemble. This kind of 'artsy fartsy mumbo jumbo' is not easy to put into words - you kind of had to have been there. BUT, </span><span style="color: #666666; line-height: 15.95pt;">I think I am finally ready to answer some simple housekeeping questions that may help you decide if the course may be for you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #666666;">The course you apply for should be influenced by your previous experience or training. It stands to reason that there in no point applying for the </span><span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://www.rada.ac.uk/courses/acting-and-performance/ma-theatre-lab/overview"><span style="color: magenta;">RADA</span></a><a href="http://www.rada.ac.uk/courses/acting-and-performance/ma-theatre-lab/overview"><span style="color: magenta;"> Masters Degree</span></a></span><span style="color: #666666;"> if you are just starting out in your acting career. </span><span style="color: #666666; line-height: 15.95pt;">If you are still quite
young, you are lucky enough to have a few options. My advice would always be to
go for the BA or Foundation course, whether it’s at RADA or somewhere else. If you are very late teens/early 20's you're at ripe drama schools age. They like to be able to mould you into an artist of their
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to go), be prepared to be knocked back - sometimes more than once but, just keep
getting up, dusting yourself off and going back. Being turned away from a drama school is normal and the odds are especially more difficult for people of colour. You must understand that they only accept a few of our </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typecasting_(acting)"><span style="color: magenta;">‘type’</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> so you are competing against every other person of colour who
has applied and that’s probably a lot! </span></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.95pt;">Drama schools like
determination. If they say no this time, they may say yes next time, but you
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<span style="line-height: 15.95pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">I went to the MA Theatre Lab open day (recommended) and did a little </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.95pt;">research about the course but, I have to admit I still had no idea what the course entailed until I actually got there - neither did RADA. My course was only the second year of the MA Theatre Lab generation. We were still guinea pigs and changes to the course were constantly being made depending on what the students needed, which international practitioners could be brought in and so on. The MA Lab course this year will probably be very different to ours last year, as ours was very different to the pilot year.</span></div>
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developed for people with similar backgrounds to mine – Actors who've started a professional career first with no formal training or for those who have been to University
to do a drama/theatre course but want a more practical form of training. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.95pt;">The course is suited to older/more experienced Actors. The ages in my class ranged from 20-45. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.95pt;">RADA are extremely good at finding the right people who will work well together. The ensemble work so closely together that whoever you are put with - you will all become family. </span></div>
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completely practical. There was always an end of term 'paper' to write (a few hundred
words). Students must keep an on going log book about personal experiences, reflections and revelations. This is then referenced for the end of year dissertation (nowhere near the amount of words required for a University dissertation), everything else was assessed practically. </span><span style="color: #666666;">The course does not just focus on acting, you will work on directing, writing, devising and movement.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Devising is a huge part of the course, you will study a particular practitioner and then devise pieces using his/her techniques (mixed with your own of course). For example you may work on a piece by Ibsen using a Meyerhold technique. Everything goes hand in
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;">Would I go again? Hmmm - it's still too early to tell. I am not yet fully recovered from my time there. Do I regret going? Not at all! </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit; line-height: 15.95pt;">But I did go into the course very naively. I needed and wanted technical training and that I got. Looking back there are a few things that I would have done differently, but it is what it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The</span><span class="ecxapple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Screen Nation Digital-Is Media Awards</b><span class="ecxapple-converted-space" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">is designed as a competitive excellence platform that will showcase the best work being published online made by black British and international digital media creatives themed under digital publishing, entertainment and culture working across short films, web series, blogs, magazines, social networks and more.</span></div>
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Morning campers (evening/afternoon - whatev's) its been a while since I blogged and I know I promised to keep you all informed about my new adventure. . .<br />
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As this title above suggests, I am kind of prohibited from speaking about my new adventure at <a href="http://www.rada.ac.uk/"><span style="color: magenta;">RADA</span></a>. I can blog as I normally do about my trials and tribulations as an Actor and I can chat generally about myself, new discoveries and that kind of thing, but I cannot give any specifics about my course/classes or the school. Anything I do want to say about the school must be OK'd by the school's Enterprise team before published either on my blog here or the MA Theatre Lab RADA blog page.<br />
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At first glance this all seems very secret society and a bit <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draconian"><span style="color: magenta;">draconian</span></a> </span>BUT as it goes, I actually think I agree with the school and here's why:<br />
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The school have imposed this rule for a number of reasons. Since the revolution of social media our every waking thought is now out there in the virtual world for all eternity. What you had for lunch, when you went to the loo, what happened in your failed relationship, who you hate, who you love and ERRRRYTHANG!<br />
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I have been guilty of putting stupid stuff out there into the big wide virtual world. Stuff I meant 1000% at the time - but after a glass of red or a good sleep I would be embarrassed to repeat. Or WORSE stuff I have put out there AFTER a glass or two of red! Words, pictures and comments that frankly do not become me. We all have, social networks have become our online diary that is accessible to the world.<br />
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RADA is one of - if not THE best drama school in the world. Look at the history: Sir <span style="background-color: white; background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: white; background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Attenborough" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: magenta; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" title="Richard Attenborough"><span style="color: magenta;">Richard Attenborough</span></a><span style="color: #999999;">,</span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: magenta; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" title="Kenneth Branagh"><span style="color: magenta;">Kenneth Branagh</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Collins" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" title="Joan Collins"><span style="color: magenta;">Joan Collins</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Hopkins" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" title="Anthony Hopkins"><span style="color: magenta;">Anthony Hopkins</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivien_Leigh" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" title="Vivien Leigh"><span style="color: magenta;">Vivien Leigh</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Rickman" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" title="Alan Rickman"><span style="color: magenta;">Alan Rickman</span></a> for crying out loud! That's a BIG responsibility for new RADA students to live up to. We are the future and we carry with us the amazing legacy of the past. Then there comes Tanya Vital tired, stressed out, dramatic and drunk on twitter "Oh I f*ck%ng hate such and such a person in such and such a class" - can you even imagine?! *face palm*<br />
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The prestigious name of this world renowned school brought to it's knees by little old Tanya Vital in 2.5 seconds on Twitter. That AINT a good look.<br />
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Along with that, there is also the safety of my fellow students. Drama school, as some of you will know is a place for experimentation. In the outside world we would call it 'messing about'. Because to the outside world its just a bunch of grown-ups playing around and acting like kids, but now even I understand it's much more than that.<br />
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As students we are exposed to so many different kinds of training, physical, mental, emotional and these classes have many different formats. What you or I may think is a load of old twaddle has actually been developed intensely over years/generations/centuries to help the artist give truth in their performance. <b><u>(NOTE: When I talk of Artist/Actor I DO NOT mean celebrity)</u></b><br />
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Think of it like this - regardless what your opinion of drama is or regardless of your opinion about drama school. Think of your favourite film/book/poem/song/play. Think of the last film that touched your heart, made you cry or resonated with you. That magical stuff doesn't just happen overnight. Despite what you heard - overnight success does NOT exist. The reason that particular piece of art touched you was down to generations of hard work by artists passing down information and experience to others.<br />
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The way RADA sees it is that the school should be a safe place for us to train, to experiment and to try out weird and wonderful things. See what works and what doesn't WITHOUT the added ridicule of the outside world or fellow classmates making the strange experiences even harder. I for one am down with this! I do NOT want pictures/videos of me sweating my ass off in a downward dog Yoga pose, seething words of Shakespeare coming to haunt me when I collect my Oscar - I just do NOT want that, so I have to also respect others who feel the same.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The most amazing, crazy, terrifying, fabulous thing is happening! </span>As of mid September I am embarking on probably the most
important, yet nerve wracking adventure of my career. I have been accepted to
study a 1 year Masters degree course in<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.rada.ac.uk/courses-at-rada/acting-and-performance/ma-theatre-lab/course-overview"><span style="color: magenta; line-height: 115%;">Theatre Lab</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span>at<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_188099822"><span style="color: magenta; line-height: 115%;">The Royal </span></a><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_188099822"><span style="color: magenta; line-height: 115%;">Academy</span></a><a href="http://www.rada.ac.uk/"><span style="color: magenta; line-height: 115%;"> of Dramatic Art</span></a>. <o:p></o:p><span style="line-height: 115%;">Aside from still being in complete shock I am of course ecstatic!</span></span></div>
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work straight out of college. I've covered this in previous blog posts and I've
explained that not having a 3 year Bachelors degree from
an accredited Drama School has definitely affected the way my career has
developed. I cannot say it has had a detrimental effect to my
career because over the past decade I've had some really great jobs, but I will
say that it has possibly affected the type of work I have been offered or am being
offered at this point.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I have attended various short courses over the years both in the UK
and America. I have spent a lot of time, money and effort on trying to develop
my skills as much as possible so that I could could 'catch up' as it were, to
Drama Graduates. I have done - I feel - as much as I can on my own to develop my
career. I have taken myself as far as I can go holding my own hand, but
now I have definitely hit that pesky glass ceiling. For whatever reason the
challenges just aren't coming in anymore. The type of work I feel I should be
getting at this stage of my career, just isn't swinging my way. I'm stuck in
step 3 when I really should be moving onto step 4,5 and 6. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now forgive me - but I didn't
come this far to give up at step 3. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have made myself (and my poor mum) </span>penniless by this career (so if you're feeling generous and want to help with my fees feel free to sponsor my blog by pressing the button top right of the page).<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I've been
eaten alive by bedbugs </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><u>literally</u> </b><span style="font-family: inherit;">from head to toe from having to stay in vile,
grotty places whilst working. I’ve been spat at with real spit (ask </span><a href="http://jimmyakingbola.com/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: magenta;">Jimmy Akingbola</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">). I've </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">performed with a smile on my face, suffering torn muscles and an injured spine. I've lost both friends and
relationships to this career path. I've been discriminated against, bullied (they tried) and
treat like scum. I have given this calling everything I have, blood, sweat and
tears! I've been to hell and back a million times, knocked down and I STILL
keep getting back up for more - because when you have the fire of the
storyteller inside your belly you simply have no choice but to pursue it
- </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><u>'I'm
bout that life'</u>, so damn straight! I intend to do whatever I can - to get me where I feel I need to be after this much effort.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've always said that you do NOT need to have attended
Drama School to work and I've proven that so far. BUT! I am now resigned to that
fact that I need an extra bit of oompf! behind me to take me further - you know
a bit more ammo! I'm 2 foot tall so unfortunately I can't rely on my good looks
and charm alone. There are much more aesthetically pleasing women out
there who have taken all of the 'looks' train tickets. I can't rely on my
talent alone because although I know I already have something and perhaps to a
certain extent I am good enough without the MA - what does it matter how good
you are if you cannot be seen or if nobody is willing to give you a chance? So
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I'm not gonna lie of course I chose RADA for its grandeur
and association with being one of the best Drama Schools in the World. Having it on my CV won't look too shabby, but I also chose
it because I have always wanted to train there. They have a great
reputation and have turned out some really great Actors such
as<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Hopkins"><span style="color: magenta; line-height: 115%;">Anthony Hopkins</span></a>, <span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Bean" title="Sean Bean"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: magenta; line-height: 115%;">Sean Bean</span></a>,<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madekwe"><span style="color: magenta; line-height: 115%;">Ashley Madekwe</span></a>, <span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Jean-Baptiste" style="color: magenta;" title="Marianne Jean-Baptiste">Marianne
Jean-Baptiste</a><span style="color: #cccccc;">, w</span></span>ho have all done some truly great work -
work that I want to do! I already know and have worked with some of the
teachers from RADA on other projects and they are fabulous, their teaching skills are
second to none (which you'd expect from such an establishment). I have always
respected the school's work ethic and history and to sound cheesy and cliched -
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We've all heard the horror
stories of Drama Schools breaking you down to nothing and building you back up
again - whatever that means?! How they change you and
perhaps mold you into some kind of thespian zombie and release you
back into the world ready to mash up some Chekov, but lacking the previous
social skills and personality you once possessed. So yeah - I am worried as to
what they are actually going to 'do' to me when I get there. I'm a tough
northern soul and I'm not ashamed to say I'm stubborn and can be very set in my
ways. It's taken a while, but I'm at the stage where I quite like me and I
don't actually<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><u>want</u><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span>to change... but they told me in no uncertain terms in their posh yet terrifying RADA voice<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><b><u>"You must be willing to
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gulp! How much "<u>changing</u>" can one do in a year?! Guess I'm
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I'm scared! But this is definitely going to be an investment and the challenge
I was after. I will be in the arms of experts and I am looking
forward to the breathing space of education once again. I will be getting top
class education and it's going to be tough but I'm ready for it! I'm ready for my
floppy </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Morrissey</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">hair cut.
I'm ready for them to dissect every deep dark secret of my life and
have me cry in front of complete strangers. I'm ready to roll around on the
floor and make animal sounds - my old bones might not be but I am! I'm ready to
be told that actually - I'm not as 'ready' as I thought I was! I am ready to be part
of the "RADA darling RADA" clique.</span> </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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