The Three Year Acting Course is our flagship course and provides a
comprehensive training for actors of exceptional talent.
Course content remains the same under BA (Hons) validation.
DISCIPLINES
During the course, students might expect to engage in the following disciplines:
- Acting and Improvisation
- Voice, including the Speaking of Poetry
- Movement, including Period Movement
- Singing, including Choral and Solo
- Textual Interpretation and Analysis
- Alexander Technique
- Physical Theatre (including Mask, Clown, Bouffon and Melodrama)
- Stage Combat
- Dance, including Tap, Jazz, Flamenco, Historic
- Preparation for the Industry
Three kinds of ‘performance’ accompany classwork: scene studies, workshops and fully realised productions.
PLAYS
During the course students might expect to experience a variety of
performance styles including:
- Greek
- Shakespeare and Jacobean
- Restoration
- 19th Century Russian Naturalism
- 20th and 21st Century plays
- Music Theatre
- A play-making process
Television and Film work takes place in the second and third year.
PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION
Unique to LAMDA is a project that takes place at the end of the second year in which students collaborate with a writer and / or director to produce the first draft of a new work. This may be developed further to become a full production in the final year. Two of these projects have gone on to be productions in the National Theatre repertoire.
Audition duologues take place in the final year in the West End to which agents and casting directors are invited. Some third year productions may tour after performing in the MacOwan Theatre.
Final year students eligible to work in Canada and the USA are invited to show their work in the duologue showcases which LAMDA arranges in New York and Los Angeles for agents and casting directors.
Graduates of the course include Jim Broadbent (Oscar winning) & Anna Maxwell Martin (Two-time BAFTA Award winning). See our Alumni section for further information on LAMDA graduates.
