Courses
FOUNDATION DIPLOMA
Professional and Performance Skills
Acting
We teach techniques and give exercises based on key theatre practitioners
including Strasberg, Stanislavsky, Brecht, Hagan and Meisner. We also help
students explore character behaviour and impulse, sense memory and imagination.
Through our varied programme, we strive to foster each student's individuality
as an actor and help them find their own unique "voice".
Voice
Students will be taught to identify their inherent vocal habits and how
to change and control their speech patterns. Voice work includes exercises
to improve breath control in order to extend vocal range and flexibility.
Text work helps develop physical and imaginative control of the voice. During
the course of the year, students will work on a range of texts, both prose
and verse.
Movement and Dance
We teach basic body conditioning and awareness as well as contemporary and jazz dance techniques. Students also
study movement in relation to character development which is an intrinsic part of acting. We encourage our students
to be physically fit, flexible and strong in order to have full dramatic expression.
Improvisation
Students learn to access their innate spontaneity and imagination through improvisation. Exercises help students
overcome inhibitions and find expression in a creative and dynamic way.
Devised Theatre
You will use various exploratory devising techniques to devise and perform a piece of theatre. You will look at
how different stimuli can contribute towards making theatre, understand how non-naturalist theatre can be used and
its effect, consider how space and atmosphere contribute to performance work and work collaboratively as a group
taking a joint ownership of the project.
Audition Technique
You will concentrate on the exploration of selected texts examining the clues for performance that these texts offer
you. You will work on monologues as well as scene work in these sessions. Other aspects of this module are how to
prepare for an audition and techniques of sight-reading.