Your commitment to GSA

Lucky Stiff

What GSA expects from you

You must be trainable. You have to understand the role of the School and tutor as well as what is expected of the actor. You have to work with tutors on solving technical problems that are inhibiting your work as an actor. You have to trust that your tutor is working towards an achievable goal. 

You have to recognise that this is an active partnership. Be open to all possibilities and learn to greet the unexpected: you need to be prepared to be uncomfortable. The role of the actor takes courage and a willingness to confront what is unknown. This is more than obedience: it is a matter of fundamental choice.
You must work towards acquiring a strong personal sense of self.  A “positive arrogance” that sustains determination in a crisis.

You must bring to your classes the highest level of commitment, participating fully and sustaining this beyond the fatigue barrier.
Be prepared to acknowledge and explore your own prejudices and phobias. Acting is not therapy. Although personal growth is often a by-product of acting training, it is not its first object. Always be fully ready and appropriately dressed before the time of every call. Communicate if you are unavoidably prevented from being on time or are going to miss a class.

Make your training and the pursuit of your goal a priority, central to all your thinking. Inquire into the nature of your craft and business in all its aspects, relating these to the wider world for which theatre exists and upon which it depends. Take responsibility for being an actor and an artist wherever you may be.

Spend time studying beyond formal classes. Read plays or scripts, rehearse scenes and monologues, go and see films and plays. Practise your techniques every day and interiorise good practice.

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