THIS Course offers comprehensive vocational training for students of exceptional talent.
This course stretches students physically, emotionally, intellectually and creatively –preparing them to meet the highest demands of the profession.
Course Content
Year One
Students undertake technical classes in acting, improvisation, voice, movement, singing, textual analysis and interpretation, Alexander Technique,physical theatre, stage combat and dance.They are also introduced to screen acting.
Technical classes represent 80% of the course content; the rest is dedicated to scene study work on Molière, Greek, Jacobean and contemporary drama. Students present four workshop performances, which are closed to the public to encourage exploration and experimentation.
Year Two
Classwork represents 60% of the course content and includes intensive radio and screen acting modules. In addition, students rehearse and present workshop performances of Shakespeare, Restoration drama, 19th century Russian naturalism and musical theatre. These performances remain closed to the public.
Second year projects include our Make Your
Own Film module and the LAMDA Long Project – in which students collaborate with a professional writer and director to produce the first draft of a new play. This may become a public LAMDA production in their final year.
Mark Ravenhill’s Mother Clap’s Molly House was originally devised as a LAMDA Long Project.
Year Three
Students perform public productions at The LAMDA Linbury Studio and in professional
London venues as part of our LAMDA at Large initiative. Some of these productions transfer to theatres elsewherein the UK and Europe.
Students complete the final phase of their screen acting and microphone training. They create a professionally directed and edited short film, record a radio play and continue to develop their on-camera audition technique.
Technical classes support our students throughout their final year.