Lamda audition

LAMDA AUDITION

This audition was one of the more simplest ones which I didn't really expect ...similar to the RADA audition.

I got the train to London and managed to find my way to lamda via the tube and my maps on my iPhone and it was pretty easy to find so if your worrying about that... Don't.

I arrived at my Lamda audition half an hour early, I think it's good that if your audition is at 9 you have it in your head that it's actually at half 8 and plan that way so there's always that half an hour of space.

Once inside the building I met another 6/7 auditionees many of them where actually from around Europe which was something new, and we where taken to the canteen by 2 current students who where really nice. It's actually at the LAMDA audition that I learnt one student had auditioned for 5 years in a row without success so it goes to show persistence is key!

We then got moved up to wait in a corridor and one by one got taken into a mini theatre in which I was greeted by a panel of Two teachers who just simply asked for the name of my plays and said begin when your ready and once you have done one move onto the next, I did so and that was that. They thanked me and I left - I was abit deflated as I sort of expected abit more from lamda, maybe abit of direction or questioning your choices but non of this really happened it was in and out.

Next I was taken to a room where there was one student and a member of staff from admin, they where very relaxed and just asked me a few questions. Because they where similar age they made you feel a lot more comfortable so conversation flowed. They asked questions like what I was up to at the minuite and the big question 'what would you do with your gap year if you weren't to get in' so if have an answer prepared for this question as it seems to come up a lot.

After 5 minutes in the interview it was done and I was on my way back to Manchester all in the space of about 2 hours!