In your acting classes you’ll be rehearsing and performing scenes every week. You’ll gain an all-round practical understanding of the art of acting. You will learn by doing, while at the same time understanding what you are doing.
Developed from Stanislavski, our course will train you in the actor’s art of creation and expression – the ability ‘to create the inner life of a human spirit and to express it in artistic form’.
We lay great stress on developing the imagination. The acting classes are very carefully structured, so that you develop your understanding of acting in an organic, methodical way.
MODULE 1: ACTING
- In the first term you will learn to create inner life, how to express through physical action, and the importance of creating background circumstances and finding and playing objectives. Later, you will start to write your own short scenes, devising these with the help of your peers.
- In the second term we stress the importance of interplay with other actors, and the development of emotional sensibility and the ability to improvise. You will be given the chance to explore characterisation, learning how to build a character step by step. It culminates in an informal presentation of a substantial exercise, giving you the chance to use all you have learned so far.
- In the third term we move on to text. You will work on three texts from well-known plays, and learn how to study a text and all the background work you need to do to build a performance, while at the same time learning how to rehearse in a practical, creative way.
The year finishes with a presentation of work in progress to a paying audience.