Studio training contiuum: Conservatory? not? and everything in between

[fishbowlfreshman]

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I thought about the question of rehearsal time variation between programs where casting is mandatory etc. vs. programs where you just have to get lucky enough to get cast. But to be honest that gets into the whole, “let’s out ache each other” factor don’t you think?

Oh, [I&lt;/a&gt; don’t think it’s about that](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1vDjZmb4lE]I”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1vDjZmb4lE). It’s just a gray area that will differ between schools that has to be given some consideration in trying to get an accurate picture. It’s just another one of those things that refuses to conform to the tidiness we’d like to impose. </p>

<p>But there’s no doubt that you’d be hard-pressed to find a BFA acting student who isn’t perpetually busy. The differences between what would generally be considered a conservatory or a more liberal arts oriented BFA are mainly in the mix of what students are busy with and it’s good to have a thread where that can be examined.</p>

<p>Really, the true conservatories are the UK schools where their accreditation standards call for keeping bankers’ hours for training and then rehearsing all night. And they don’t even call them conservatories. Just “drama school.”</p>