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South Africa acting schools abound in metropolitan areas, but particularly in South Africa will you find more schools than you could visit in a lifetime. Often, the teachers are former actors who never went as far as they had hoped on the silver screen, so they dropped out in order to teach other actors and hold the acting schools how to act as poorly as they had been taught. This, you may correctly deduce, results in more mediocre actors who will rarely, if ever, find industry work.

Are South Africa acting schools good or bad for actors? This question has so many answers that it can be really confusing and everyone has their own opinion about it. The other thing about an opinion is that technically speaking, one can never be wrong. Your opinion is your view on a particular subject. You may be wrong about the subject matter, but your opinion is the way that you feel at that time. Now that I have thoroughly confused you, let’s talk about what all this means.

Other actors recognized after making a few films that they no longer enjoyed seeing their name roll past on film credits. The thrill, for them, was gone, but they had learned something. They knew how to act; they were good at it, and found they derived greater pleasure teaching others the craft they had learned than in performing it themselves. Their students are those who go on to become polished actors, thankful the original actor sacrificed the limelight in order to teach them how to shine.