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I’m not really sure where January has disappeared to, except that for some reason this year it has seemed darker and more miserable than usual. Whether it’s talk of Trump or Brexit or just too many icy winds sweeping in from the continent, I shall be more than glad to welcome February on Wednesday. The end of January brings us our annual “Moving On Up” event at the Actors Centre which is the point in the year when we first engage with all this years drama graduates. For some six to eight hundred young people, this will be the year they begin to try to turn a dream into a career. Having spent three years in the artistic hermitage of their drama school, they now have to make contact with the real world and the Actors Centre aims to be part of that. “Moving On Up” is the first event at which we offer them a taste of what the Actors Centre can do.  Tomorrow evening there will be agents doing speed dating, an industry panel answering questions on “Life after Drama School”, an...

So if ever there were a day for setting objectives, whether in one’s personal life, or one’s professional life, today’s it. January 1. The first day of the New Year.  Many of us will be approaching today having had a little bit of an extended break over Christmas. A great many people will be in the middle of what will probably be the busiest period of work in their year - two shows a day and weighed down with glitter and sparkle.  At such times it can be hard to think ahead to the fact that in a week or two, you may be facing a cold bleak and possibly unemployed January.  Similarly those of us who have just been taking the Christmas period as holiday, shouldn’t rely too much on everything kicking off within the first week or so. The year, as indeed our careers, are a marathon and not a sprint. If you have not worked by the end of January, you’ll probably be in the majority, and it doesn’t mean to say that the rest of the year will find you similarly unoccupied. ...