WAAPA AUDITIONS!!

> Those who want to get into WAAPA you > need to think long and hard about what > you want to achieve True of any course of study. > WAAPA ia a long way from home and Perth > is definitely not Melbourne or Sydney. Not sure what that's even supposed to mean. > No shops are open on Sundays Not true. > and they all shut at 6pm on weekdays Not true. The nightlife is crap Depends on what you're after. > Its quiet and isolated Precisely why it's such a good place to study acting - no pressure from the industry like you get at NIDA, where they're scrutinising your every move from day one and not allowing you any room to stretch your wings a little. > flights home are not cheap Depends who you fly with. > and finding accommodation is bullshit > there's not enough decent close accommodation. So walk. Ride a pushbike. Catch a bus. Or share a house like every other student. > Dont even think about staying in student > accom. its the pits and a hell hole. I'll take your word on that one. > Dont tell me the MT schools around Sydney > dont get their students into musicals cos > they do. Why go all the way over there and > waste your money when we have perfectly > good MT schools here So go to one of them. > What makes WAAPA great, its isolated so > no agents can steal you and that's it. I thought you said that Perth's isolation was a bad thing. > Think about giving up 3 years of your > social life cos you only party with > the same WAAPA people at their places > cos theres no where else to go. Oh the humanity! I pity the poor suffering victims who only get to party with twenty-something actors! Because god knows they're such kiljoys! **chortle** > WAAPA is like NIDA, they rip you to > shreads, chew you up and spit you out, > no encouragement, push push push. Crap. Have you been there? > You always see students crying in the > corridors Names and dates, please. Because I for one have never seen this, nor heard of it happening. That's not to say that it doesn't, merely to point out that it's *very* infrequent. And in any case... even if this does happen occasionally, guess what... it's a high pressure environment training young people for a high pressure industry - it's not a freaking kindergarten. > Aust Idol's Kyle and Mark Holden are > pussycats compared to this. Oh shut up. Who do you think you're trying to impress? > They want their $55 audition fees from > everyone to make money. You think they should volunteer the weeks of staff time, airfares to Sydney and Melbourne, and accomodation in those cities, etc., that are required in order to run those auditions? (And I'll bet that the combined audition fees don't even come close to covering all of that anyway.) > Dont get me started. You did that all on your own. DM.