Performing Arts and Music

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.

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...

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 and 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.

Applicants need to be 19...

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