Acting & Performing Skills for Budding Actors
RHACC?s iconic evening Drama course is back in full swing.
If acting is something you?ve always wanted to do, but never found the time for if you had done it when you were young, had to move on to other things but have never forgotten about it if you are at that beautiful point in life of finding yourself or not knowing what to do next and want to see if this is for you if you intend to pursue Drama in some form, but are not ready to commit to a qualification if you have been deeply touched by the pandemic and want to revitalise that part of yourself which seeks social...
Advanced Practice - Acting
This course is designed to expand your experience of acting beyond the foundation level and to increase the range of choices and techniques you can use as an actor and so enhance your employability. All tutors have experience of working at a high level within in the professional theatre.
Beginners Please. Taster - Improvisation, Performance and Method Acting
This taster course is an introduction to techniques and ideas that you will find on the acting/ drama courses at college. You will start off with a look at improvisation and then devise short script working on the short script we will examine the basis of method acting ideas such as obstacles, tactics, and objectives and then use this to develop a performance.You will look at movement and voice and then give a short performance
There will also be a discussion of college courses and which ones would be suitable
Drama for Confidence
This beginners course consists of classes that combine acting, body, movement, voice and speech in order to improve your confidence and wellbeing. The teaching is practical, incorporating some basic theory. Throughout the course there will be opportunities to explore the dynamics of self and the emergent feelings, which we can use in the space as a means to give self-management and improvement of wellbeing.
We will explore the creative principles and techniques in acting, and how to get behind a role. We will be using improvisation and devising to create our own work, or expanding...
Dramatic Arts
This is a fun course, to introduce you to some basic principals of Acting, while loosening up the inhibitions, rekindling the spirit of play and creating an opportunity for making new friendships.
Dramatize Your Life
Create an original play, out of your own life stories; and perform it with your fellow learners, in the RHACC Theatre, at the end of the course
Foundation Acting - Techniques for Performance
This course is designed to expand your experience of acting and to increase the range of choices and techniques you can use as an actor.
The course is also appropriate for students with Level 3 qualifications already who may wish to add a year to support applications to Universities or Drama Schools.
Last academic year, one student received a scholarship to the Stella Adller School of Acting in New York. Two students were offered places at Drama Studio London. One student was offered a place with the original founders of Drama Center.
How to be Brilliant at Public Speaking
You will learn how to develop confidence in your voice. You will begin to explore how posture, relaxation, visualisation and vocal techniques can help you achieve this. You will also create your own personal voice checklist and create an action plan to develop your skills further.
Musical Theatre
Come and shake off the stiffness of the working week, in this Glee-like weekly frolicking. Learn songs, dance routines and classic scenes, to rehearse and perform in an end-of-term show to an invited audience, in our Queen Charlotte Theatre.
Richmond Drama School - Audition Technique (Intensive)
Performing Shakespeare can be a daunting task- however there is a reason why his plays have survived and thrived for so long and during this course you will learn to really appreciate some of them!
Through the course of the week you will begin to learn how to read, understand and speak Shakespeare, cumulating in a performance of some of his work on the final day.
This a practical course hands on, taught class, with a focus on developing acting skills as a whole, using Shakespeare as the performance text
Spoken Word / Poetry
A weekly meeting to enjoy all forms of spoken word - poetry / plays / Shakespeare.
Taster - Budding Actors
This 2-hour session is the perfect opportunity to find out how we intend to move on from the lockdown, into our Drama teaching at RHACC.
It will involve all the major elements anticipated in the course at this point, as well as the opportunity to meet the tutor, ask any questions, get the feel of the place and assess the possibilities this iconic evening course can mean for your personal lifestyle in the near future, as we move out of the lockdown and assume more life normality.
This course is a taster for our Acting & Performing Skills for Budding Actors course which...
Taster - Introduction to Acting
This taster course is an introduction to techniques and ideas that you will find on the acting/ drama courses at college. You will start off with a look at improvisation and then devise short script working on the short script we will examine the basis of method acting ideas such as obstacles, tactics, and objectives and then use this to develop a performance. You will look at movement and voice and then give a short performance.
There will also be a discussion of college courses and which ones would be suitable
The Business of Show Business
Are you an Actor/ress or an aspiring Actor/ress? This is your essential weekly 2-hour self-promotion admin lab, where you will get the opportunity to work on your professional profile, in a peer-supported environment, under the leadership of an experienced professional Actress and Tutor, exploring all the possible avenues for your career, using all the trade-specific tools of self-promotion, available
