Actingclassof1977.com

Actingclassof1977.com, or Acting Class of 1977, is a 2008 Australian documentary television film that looks at the Australian entertainment industry and the actortraining practices of the National Institute of Dramatic Art during the 1970s. Written, directed and produced by Sally McKenzie, the documentary first aired on the ABC in June 2008.

The Australian wrote that writerdirector Sally McKenzie created a witty new documentary that is a droll look at the nature of actors, what its like to become one and the toll that their careers take. Its about survival and the terrible regret that accompanies those highly trained performers who dont make it and how their sadness never goes away. They further noted that students of the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1977 worked out of old tin sheds at a former military camp in Sydney, and produced some leading lights of film, television and theatre, but that not all from the 1977 group became stars. They noted that the film showed teachers were contradictory and sometimes seemed to be as much in the dark about acting as their students. The courses offered tended to be psychoanalytic in teaching students how to bear up under the industrys tendency to humiliate and degrade actors, but McKenzie revealed that nothing in their training prepared them for the callousness of the marketplace, where appearance was everything.Sydney Morning Herald wrote that none of the class of 1977 students interviewed for the project thought that Gibson or Davis would be as successful as they have been. Theatre was very much the focus of our training, McKenzie said, The thought of people being stars in film and television or having stellar careers was not really considered. ........

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