The Performing Arts College Commandments
The performing arts college commandments were in the first edition paperback of Withering Tights, but I haven't found them anywhere else yet.
| Do NOT photocopy your bottom |
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| DO wear a false moustache |
| Do NOT perform ballet on a bike |
| DO try to involve small (but willing) animals onstage |
| DO find the comedy in everything |
| Do NOT try to understand your egg-xistence |
| Do NOT reveal your pants onstage (especially not worn over your other clothes) |
| DO method acting (especially if it involves lots of snogging practice) |
| Do NOT try to order snacks backstage just because you got the main part |
| DO remember where the lights are (a footlight is not for sticking your foot through) |
| DO ad lib (blame your creative genius urges) |
| DO bag the role where you get to snog a hot boy (but beware his understudy) |
| DO post your hilarious interpretative dance moves online |
| Do NOT create costumes out of bubblewrap |
| DO let your inner gorilla out |
| Do NOT do mime snogging, especially if you are by yourself |
| DO use comedy props, they are always welcome |
| It is NOT amusing to eat beans and be the front end of a pantomime horse |
| DO sing in silly accents |
| DO fill your tights and don the golden slippers of applause! |