Actor training in anglophone countries: past, present and future, by Peter Zazzali

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Title Actor training in anglophone countries: past, present and future, by Peter Zazzali
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Abstract/Description Book review: For many a reader of this journal, a weary sigh will accompany Peter Zazzali’s declaration early in his new book Actor Training in Anglophone Countries that ‘training in academe has become a commodified industry preparing students for THE commodified industry’. Even before the forced rationalisation of the ongoing Covid-crisis the book’s chapter would have made for bleak reading, documenting as it does the ‘Darwinian plight’ faced by conservatoire schools whose funding and future can only be secured by entering into ever more Faustian pacts with accrediting universities. This contextualises one of the over-arching questions Zazzali asks: ‘do acting programs belong at universities, or would it be better for them to be vocational schools that are as select in training as they are in number?’.
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Publisher Theatre, Dance and Performance Training
Volume 13
Issue 4
Page 631-632
Date Issued 28 December 2022
Language English
Citation Chris Hay, Actor training in anglophone countries: past, present and future, by Peter Zazzali, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 13, 4, 28 December 2022, 631-632
Data Set AusStage
Resource Identifier 79366