Acting and Performing Skills for Budding Actors
Is acting something you've always wanted to do, but never found the time for? Come and learn the fine art of self-discovery and reflection on life, through drama games and play. This course is designed to awaken your performance spirit, show you what's involved in being an actor and immerse you in a learning community of like-minded souls.
Devising your Own One Person Show
Are you passionate about a specific subject? Are you interested in writing your own material for stage? Have you ever wanted to perform in front of an audience? Imagine writing a piece of theatre that reflects your ideas and showcases your talent and acting abilities. You will learn how to take a subject you're passionate about and adapt it from the page to the stage.
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...
Easter Drama School Theatre Project (Hillcroft Campus, Surbiton)
Come and brush up your acting skills, and be part of this intensive community drama project, where you will increase your confidence and self-esteem in a supportive adult-only workshop setting. Develop your knowledge and skills in creative thinking, devising, performing and /or writing for performance, and create a piece of collaborative theatre or performance in just three days.
Foundation Acting Techniques for Performance
Come and be part of Richmond Drama School, where you will increase your confidence and self-esteem in a supportive adult-only workshop setting. Based in our beautiful theatre, this course will allow you to spend one day per week building your skills and knowledge through learning performance techniques derived from and used by different theatre practitioners. You will build skills in using the breath, voice, movement, the gaze, levels and resistance. You will develop and apply these techniques in creative improvisation scenarios and devising projects. You will work with a text as well...
How to be Brilliant at Public Speaking
You will learn how to develop confidence in your oral presentations. You will begin to explore how posture, body language, non-verbal cues can help you achieve this. You will also create your own personal style and do some brainstorming to develop your skills further.
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
Do you want to express your feelings and ideas through writing? Have you ever wanted to put your own thoughts, ideas and experiences into words? Whether you find it difficult to approach poetry, or are passionate about poetry and want to explore the field in more depth, this course will help you learn and expand on your own creativity when it comes to writing and expressing yourself. Take a journey and discover your talents in writing spoken word. This course is taught by Kareena Chin.
Tap Dance - Beginners
An introduction to the wonderful world of Tap. You will be introduced to the basic moves, beats and rhythms of this exciting dance, learn some basic steps, and have the option to learn a dance by the end of term.
