A REAL update about RADA

It appears the gods have answered my cries (maybe they read this blog?)

After many long days of waiting, my reply from RADA regarding my first round audition came in the post today. The same envelope that I had sent off to them with my application, now containing one solitary, thin letter (don’t people say that if the envelope is thick then it’s a recall, if it’s thin it’s a rejection?…) was perched upon my doormat.

Bizarrely, despite the fact that I had to attach a stamp to the envelope they still felt the need to mark it with their own franking machine anyway. I could have saved myself 36p…

Funnily enough, though, that wasn’t what was occupying the majority of my attention as I looked at the letter. Frustratingly, this was the one day of the week that my Mum wasn’t at work in the morning and as such it was her that found the letter first on the doormat and gave it to me – I could feel her metaphorically peering over my shoulder as I opened it, which was annoying, but at least physically speaking I had shut myself in the kitchen so nobody could sneak up behind me and see. It’s a pretty personal thing and I hate the feeling of having to share it with people without having a chance for the result, whatever it may be, to sink in first.

I stalled for time by firstly opening another letter that was sent to me (I receive nothing in the post for weeks, and then two things come at once??), before, finally, I could put it off no longer. All manner of things were running through my head. I have managed, over the past few days, to distinguish RADA from the other drama schools in my mind (mainly as a way to stop myself thinking about the result so much) and have been telling myself that RADA “doesn’t count” as one of the drama schools that I am auditioning for and that to receive a rejection from them shouldn’t affect the rest of my applications or the way that I think about them, i.e. because RADA is so much higher in terms of numbers of applicants it should be treated as an entirely separate venture to the rest of them, and that I should try and focus on the other schools for the time being, if you get my drift. I told myself that LAMDA was where I was going to focus on and that it shouldn’t affect my LAMDA application or the way I thought about it or prepared for it if I was rejected by RADA…

But none of that really helped.

Anyway, I opened the letter…

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I GOT A RECALL!!!

At the eighth time of asking, I finally got a recall somewhere! And at RADA too! I’m not completely useless! Woohoo!!!

Anyway, I mustn’t get too excited, for two main reasons: 1) even if I get TWO MORE recalls from RADA I’d still have to pass the final round, so there’s a LONG way to go, and 2) I’ve got to get preparing, because my recall is exactly one week away today!

So as I say, I’d better get practising – especially as they ask for a song this time…

Now THAT’S gonna be interesting…