The Three Year Acting Course is our flagship course, which 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, Bouffons, and Melodrama)
- Stage Combat
- Dance, including Tap, Jazz, Flamenco, Historic
- History of 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.
Audition duologues take place (in the final year only), to which agents and casting directors are invited. Some third year productions may tour after performing in the MacOwan Theatre.
Unique to LAMDA is a project that takes place at the end of the second year in which students collaborate with a writer and 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.
Students eligible to work in Canada and the USA are able to join others in their final year in performing a programme of duologues which LAMDA arranges to be presented in New York, for agents and casting directors.
