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This course is designed for students with less experience and for those who wish to develop their skills before pursuing a vocational programme. The content and intensity of the training make it one of the most exciting introductory courses in the UK.
Course Content
The course is taught through a combination of technical classes, scene study and workshop presentations, which are closed to the public. Technical classes – including acting, audition technique, improvisation, movement, singing, textual analysis and interpretation, Alexander Technique, dance, playwriting, set design and stage combat – represent 60% of the overall course content.
Scene study and workshop presentations cover Shakespeare, Russian naturalism and modern drama. Students participate in a devised movement performance and an extended improvisation project. They also collaborate with a writer and director to create a piece of new work through a process of research, improvisation and rehearsal.
Throughout the course, students are encouraged to see as much theatre as possible and attend exhibitions at art galleries and museums.
Graduate Destinations
Many students from this course have gone on to pursue a two or three-year training at LAMDA, RADA, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Bristol Old Vic, East 15, ALRA, Central St Martins, Oxford School of Drama and many other drama schools and universities.
Other graduates are enjoying successful careers as writers, directors, designers and theatre critics.