ACTING AND CREATING THEATRE (STAGE 2)

This advanced course has been designed to challenge students who already possess some experience in acting and performance or may have already completed our ‘Acting for Beginners and Improvers’ short course.

Due to the uncertainty of the ongoing Covid-19 situation, we have decided to cancel our Evening & Saturday courses for the Autumn term 2020.

We are currently reviewing the situation and will be delivering a limited number of Evening & Saturday courses in January 2021.

Whether you want to advance your acting skills to tackle a Shakespearian text or take your skills to new levels, this ten-week focussed and practical-based programme will provide you with the applied skills to approach either or both of these.

You will explore various ways to develop an idea, from improvisation, writing techniques and physical theatre. All staying true to the techniques you shall be taught to help dissolve habitual defences to become free, instinctual and a playful actor with the aim of being able to be completely ‘in the moment’ when you perform.

You will explore and examine ways to dissect, understand and play it, whilst being reminded of key approaches to acting and how to apply the techniques. You will then go on to look at different approaches to creating your own work. Starting with a theme, idea or character – exploring different mediums and developing it into the most fitting – be it a comedy sketch show, immersive theatre piece, radio play or musical.

As the course progresses you will continue to develop your own work to present or focus on advancing your acting skills further to perform a Shakespeare monologue or scene.

Throughout the course, you will be given advice on how to take your work further to outside audiences and explore the variety of different avenues you can go down.