London’s Central drama school axes audition fees to end elite grip on the arts
The Guardian -

The institution hopes to ‘shift the dial’ and encourage a more diverse range of students to applyA key obstacle in the path of poorer aspiring actors is to be removed at one of the UK’s leading drama schools, the Observer can reveal. The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, one of the country’s top drama schools, where Dame Judi Dench, Andrew Garfield, Riz Ahmed, Jason Isaacs, Cush Jumbo and Martin Freeman all learned their craft, is to scrap audition fees for prospective students in an...

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