What do you tell students in year 11 or in post-16 groups when they tell you they want – desperately want – to be actors, singers, dancers or other sorts of performer?
Perhaps they have been to the theatre a few times, or seen some highly misleading television talent shows and think that is the life for them.
Maybe they are doing a performing arts subject at GCSE or beyond and/or been in school shows. If they are really keen they probably take part in youth theatre or classes outside school too.
Well, sadly, most teachers and nearly all parents pour cold water on such ambitions. The one thing everyone knows is that most actors spend more than three quarters of their lives out of work. And just how much do most teachers and parents (with honourable exceptions, obviously) know about training for, or working in, the performing arts industries anyway?
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