I spent a bit of time contemplating whether it was even worth writing this blog. . . given that I've written so many now on the same topic, and yet nothing seems to change? Yet here I am again -..
Last week, it was reported that the Scottish Institute of Theatre, Dance, Film and Television had gone into liquidation. The college, formerly known as MGA, was a contemporary of The MTA, so I had monitored its growth with great interest...
When I opened The MTA back in 2009, I consciously set out to run a vocational drama college where experiential training was the entire focus. There would be no tokenistic essays to secure a government funding stream for a qualification..
When Bristol Old Vic Theatre School announced it was stopping undergraduate courses because they weren't financially viable, people suddenly decided to pop their heads out of the sand for a brief moment of shock, horror, outrage, and/or concern. Yet this..