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considered core expenditure – as recruitment is for most organisations. And while bursaries for
audition fees are all well and good, the fact poorer students have to ask for them is a barrier in
itself.
That LAMDA and Guildhall have begun to slash audition fees is very welcome – as is the fact that
other schools are banding together on schemes such as group auditions to limit students’ potential
outlay. But it does not reflect well on them that it has taken nearly a quarter of a century to start
getting their house in order.
It was always the schools’ choice to structure their finances in a way that relied on these fees. The
changes we are now seeing are long overdue and – as O’Loughlin sensibly acknowledges – there
is still more to be done.
Alistair Smith is the editor of The Stage. Read his weekly column at thestage.co.uk/author/alistair-
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