<p>I was also impressed by milkshakespeare’s clear vision of the theatre she would like to create, and I encouraged her to talk about this at her interviews and in her application essays. This passion of hers should, I think, impress the theatre departments where she was applying.</p>
<p>Like your daughter, she is also trying to capture a “believable truth”. That’s what all of us are doing, in ALL the arts, not just theatre. We use a lot of different methods. And sometimes it is “funky”. And sometimes it is “edgy”. We have to go to those places in our search for truth. If we are afraid of those places, we won’t find it. The people who are afraid to be “funky” or “edgy” are not the people we want with us on our journey, and we won’t be casting them in our plays, and I suspect they will not be getting into the best acting programs.</p>
<p>But of course, it is not you that is going to these college interviews, it is your daughter. And I am sure that she knows better than to give off the impression that she us unwilling to try something new and different.</p>
<p>One of the things that impressed me about milkshakespeare is that she was able to articulate her vision without dismissing the visions of others as being “too funky” or something similar.</p>
<p>But you may be correct that I really shouldn’t post here when I have just come out of the courtroom . . .</p>
<p>^This reminds me of when I was new to this forum and was trying to find out about the Tisch studios. I wrote that I was wondering if ETW (Experimental Theatre Workshop) would be too “off the wall,” and one of the Tisch moms was aghast and slapped my hand.</p>
<p>Later, I learned that ETW focuses on physical theatre. Within a year or two my son, who had known nothing whatsoever about physical theatre before college (he had thought he wanted to focus on classical acting), fell head over heels in love with that approach…as a lot of kids apparently do, once they are exposed to it.</p>
<p>Let’s try to be a little patient with one another, folks.</p>
<p>Wow, I did not see this at all, even though I was mentioned a couple of times on this thread. KEVP is right, I also want to capture a “believable truth”. But I don’t believe that training in only one technique will help me, but instead hinder me, as I have found that I need different approaches to the craft for different roles. But that’s just me. Now that my ‘journey’ is over, I can post the last paragraph of my applications essay:</p>
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<p>That’s pretty much what I told my auditors at both CalArts and UArts, and I emphasized the fact that I wanted to go to a school where I felt free to “Risk, fail, risk again” (NTI’s motto, which was also my motto when looking for schools) and where I wouldn’t be forced to fit a certain ‘mold’ (like studying just Meisner, just Stella Adler, you name it), but rather be given many tools and find my own path. I wasn’t subtle at all in my interviews. Maybe that’s why I was rejected at UArts and ActingDad’s daughter was accepted haha.</p>