What do Drama schools want?

What do drama schools want?

One of the most important things, drama schools are seeing if you are focused and prepared for you monologue or speech. They will be observing throughout the monologue and see if you successfully have completed their tasks. E.g. being prepared, organised about your monologue, when you said your monologue, did you know what was happening in the monologue or was it just a read out. They will know if you had been practicing and not leaving it to the last minute.

·         Consistency – always coming to lessons, not missing working days and letting your group down.

·         Work in a team – sharing ideas and working with your group.

·         Be prepared – knowing what to do all the time.

·         Competitor – not giving up, finding something harder than your opponent.

·         Creative ideas – sharing ideas with your group.

·         Attendance – attending all lessons.

·         Punctuation – being on time at all lessons.

Drama Schools are looking for a reasonable monologue that is from a published play, not from random books or movies.

Throughout this time you have to maintain your focus, your spirit and your freshness in performance.

Most people don’t get how hard the competition is. No matter how talented you are and no matter how much potential you possess, if you are not organised and fully prepared, the chances are you will fail – because so many others are fighting even harder than you.

I have prepared a classical and a modern monologue. I am preparing for Drama school, I’m going over my monologues over and over again, and therefore I don’t forget it.  The modern monologue is by Amanda Whittington called Ladies Down Under, which is about surfing, exploring the ocean and having fun with friends. The classic monologue is by William Shakespeare called The Two Gentlemen of Verona.

I chose two different monologues; I want to be able to perform different characters in a short period of time. This will help me maintain my focus into the characters and not lose concentration. I chose the classical monologue ‘The two Gentlemen of Verona’ by Shakespeare because I was familiar with the play and the character Valentine. We were practicing our monologues in the class and completed some questions.

Who am I?

When am I?

Why am I here?

Where am I?

What do I want?

What will I do to achieve my want?

We completed these questions for both of our monologues because we wanted to make sure that we knew everything about the monologues, which it will make it easier to remember the monologue, also act as the character in the play not as you. Remembering these lines will allow you to act better as the characters that you’ll be performing.