Around the country, thousands of students have either just submitted or are completing their audition applications for university acting schools. The process can be stressful for students and has many flaws, with secondary school teachers and potential students sharing concerns about its economics and accessibility.
‘I remember being pretty stressed,’ says Liz Stanfield Flores, who is now studying Honours at the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ). Flores attended a secondary school with limited support for drama. ‘My drama teacher had never been a part of an audition process before. They were trained as an English teacher. Overall, I felt quite alone.’
