The 6 month International Intensive Acting Course

Course Information

Students are given thorough training in Voice and Speech, Stage Movement, Dance and Singing. The course is also characterised by the many opportunities to perform: each academic year culminates with the production of a full-length play; students across the three years perform in student directed and devised acting exercises and etudes as well as in full-length plays. A methodical approach to reflection, as well as written and oral communication skills is also taught in parallel to acting techniques and skills.

The purpose of The Science of Acting, the acting technique founded and developed at The Kogan Academy of Dramatic Arts, is to make the ways and means by which high quality acting is achieved clearly defined, understandable and made into a workable knowledge system. Like the Kogan Academy, leading British acting schools set very high standards for the technical skills they teach (voice, movement, singing, and so on) but they are often neglectful of providing clear points of reference and thus a readily applicable acting technique that underpins the actor’s creative process. Since its opening, it has been the Academy’s aim to clarify and demystify the actor’s process and offer an objective perspective on both our trademark method, the Science of Acting, and other key acting techniques that are taught in conservatoires and practised in the profession today.