Regular readers of The Stage Newspaper, that bastion of all things theatrical, will know that it is one of the few publications that review Graduating Student Showcases. For the uninitiated these are generally daytime events that take place in a West End Theatre where drama students get to cram 3 years of training into 3 minutes before an audience of agents, producers and casting directors. I have been part of the small team who review these for the last 8 years and I have to say they are usually very jolly affairs where the mixture of fear, enthusiasm and joy amongst the students generate enough energy to practically run the theatre’s generators for three nights. Bright Young Things, indeed!
Now imagine the scenario at the (name withheld) Drama College…..
Bob: Right….I have three minutes of stage time in which I get to grab the agents attention. Three minutes. I get six if I work with Tony. Six minutes of theatre..mmm…. I was bloody good in that Shakespeare project we did last year but we shouldn’t do classical pieces, everybody knows that. Tarquin is doing the Ravenhill, so that’s off the cards. Oh dear God, we have to make our final decision in an hour! Shit!!!. Is Orton too obvious? What about Pinter? What about a song? Nah! Too poncy. And I’ll only be up against Mountview. Noooo! 2000 years of theatre and I can’t think what to do. Ahh, here’s Tony now, I wonder if he’s got any ideas?
Enter Tony, looking a little hungover but smiling.
Tony: Hey, Bob, did you see Will & Grace last night?
I ask you, we might be Dull, Old Things but do they think we were born yesterday?
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