Posts tagged summer heights high.
“I can not afford to have a cast that can’t handle the pressure. So rather than going straight into a general audition, I like to do what I call a psychological assessment. What I am looking for mostly is: can they handle the emotional strain of being in a show? You need to be fairly thick skinned to be in a show like mine, so I do what I call a sensitivity test. I test the kids for hand-eye coordination. And I am able to cull or weed out the kids who are just not right. Rejection can be tough, but the world is a tough place. Deal with it.”
“One thing that I like to do from time to time is I just perform for the kids for a whole lesson, just to give them a sort of benchmark of how things are done, so they can see how someone at a professional industry level handles the performance side of things. And that, in a way, gives them confidence.”
(via sunnydales)
