How to Know if You're Good Enough for an Acting School?
I'm asking this out of curiosity, as I've just started an Acting course at university and I'm trying to figure out how good it is. I've said to myself in the past that if I felt like I was wasting my own time and not improving enough as an actor in the first year that I'd apply to a 'proper' acting school. Whether or not I do that is still completely up in the air.
But one thing that I'm thinking about is if I'd be genuinely good enough to get into one. I do believe I'm a good actor, and I've been told by a lot of people (friends, family and by acting teachers) that I'm good, but I've never thought to ask where on the scale of good I'm actually at. I definitely feel like I can improve, but I guess that's the point of doing an acting course anyway. If anyone's gone through a similar thing, is there any way of knowing for certain?
But one thing that I'm thinking about is if I'd be genuinely good enough to get into one. I do believe I'm a good actor, and I've been told by a lot of people (friends, family and by acting teachers) that I'm good, but I've never thought to ask where on the scale of good I'm actually at. I definitely feel like I can improve, but I guess that's the point of doing an acting course anyway. If anyone's gone through a similar thing, is there any way of knowing for certain?
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I think the only way to know is to audition! If you get recalls anywhere good then you're not barking up the wrong tree... If you're not convinced that where you are now is giving you the training you need, you've got nothing to lose by trying for a drama school.
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