Drama teaching

Anyone can start a drama school. All they have to have is a room in which to hold their classes — it could be their own sitting room — and some way of tempting students in to part with their money. All through history one‐man schools have proliferated. The old adage If you can't do it, teach it is sadly true of a great many of these retired and resting actors. There is never any shortage of young, stage‐struck people anxious to learn the tricks of the trade. Vast numbers are turned away by the top drama schools and form an equally vast market for the others to capitalise on.