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ENTERTAINMENT
December 7,1990
Alumna Returns
from RADA
By Sharon Frain
Campus Life Editor
Dahn Wade returned from her five
month stay in Europe last Wednesday.
Upon graduating last year, Dahn went
abroad to study at the Royal Academy
of Dramatic Arts during a five week
wokshop this summer.
The Royal Academy of Dramatic
Arts (RADA) workshop is a five week
intensive study concentrating on
Shakespearan acting. There were ap
proximately two hundred people from
around the world studying with Dahn.
The two hundred were broken up into
groups of fifteen. Each professor had a
speciality in one area of theatre. Dahn’s
professor was a Polish instructor whose
specialized area was the background
and history of Shakespeare. Her class
went on several field trips to the Rose
heater, Stratford-on-the -Avon, and
other Shakespearean places.
The workshop consisted of a full
schedule of classes. Every actor/ac
tress worked on a soliloquy which they
eventually pieced together into a play.
Asked if RADA was full of competit-
tive actors, Dahn replied, “The first
thing they did was to stress working
together and not to be competitive. We
worked together to pinpoint each other’s
weaknesses. The aim was to work to
gether in trusting other actors like team
members do in sports. The class would
come together like a team.”
Once the workshop came to an end
everyone received certificates. Dahn
also was invited to audition into the
school itself but decided against it. She
really appreciated the learning experi
ence of RADA for it covered the basics
in acting for both stage and film,
lowever, the Royal Academy concen
trated on Shakespearan acting and not
the modern acting that Dahn is focus
ing her career at.
Film is the acting media Dahn is
going into when she moves to New
York in January. She knows seven
other RADA people there who will
help her get into the entertainment
business. Dahn explained, “They will
help me with a walk through at several
agencies. At first I’ll work with differ
ent agents to see which one pushes me
the most for parts. Then I’ll go with the
agent who is the most effective.”
Every year there is a scholarship
program for someone at St. Andrews to
attend the RADA workshop, senior Don
Smith attended the workshop last year.
The scholarship offered is called the
Sax Bradbury. Sax Bradbury was a
successful actor in New York who at
tended the RADA summer workshop
while attending St. Andrews. Sax left
a scholarship fund at St. Andrews so
people would have the chance to go.
In order to get into RADA one had
to do several things. One has to submit
an acting resume, audition, and write a
letter of intent. People from Russia to
South America attend the workshop at
what many consider the world’s lead
ing drama school, the Royal Academy
of Dramatic Arts.
Dahn really appreciates the oppor
tunity she had since a lot of techniques
and fundamentals of acting were taught.
She encourages people to try out for
RADA because she has seen a great
deal of talent and potential in the the
atre department here. Dahn humor
ously added that she is available for an
acting job. With the confidence and
conviction to her craft Dahn Wade will
definitely succeed in her goal of being
in film.
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Bizarre Hit
(Photo by Rooney Coffman)
By S. Clark
Staff Writer
“The Adding Machine” is a plainly
bizarre play written by Elmer Rice.
]R,ice is known as an expressionist play-
'A'right. Expressionism is considered to
l>e a 20th Century style of literature and
1 heater that is very symbolic in its pres-
(intation. In the setting of plays, expres
sionism is characterized by distorted
l orms and colors.
The Highland Players’ production
of "The Adding Machine” seemed to
capture the strange style of Rice quite
well. Through the setting and the acting
itself, the eccentric ideas of this exis
tentialist were represented well.
The production is successful in that
it tempts the audience to contemplate
the play, even after the show is over.
One must be ready to think about the
meaning of the story in order to enjoy it.
It is certainly not thrilling or powerful,
but it does possess qualities to make it
a good production.
Following the adventures of Mr.
Zero, the anti-hero, is interesting as he
chases dreams, only to end up search
ing for hope, which does not truly exist.
He blindly looks for things in life that
he cannot find. In writing this play.
Rice seems to be making a strong state
ment concerning an existence that has
no direction. Mr. Zero’s twenty-five
years working as a bookkeepeer for the
same company shows the unsatisfying
pursuit for finding something mean
ingful and also the frustration that re
sults from the monotonous routines of
life. In one part of the play, Mr. Zero
rejects the peace, tranquility, arid uni
versal happiness of the Elysvan Fields
in order to continue his misguided search
for hope.
It seems that a person expecting a
lively adventure or an emotional drama
may not find “The Adding Machine”
of value, but one who leaves his or her
mind open to the ideas being played by
the St. Andrews theatre team could find
that surely “The Adding Machine” is a
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