One Year Foundation in Acting

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This part-time evening Foundation course develops participants’ creativity and introduces essential performance techniques and styles in preparation for full-time professional training.

Classes take place three times a week on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and focus on the main discipline areas of acting, voice and movement. As well as providing participants with a solid foundation of skills the course encourages them to become self-led, imaginative actors. The training also includes a focused audition preparation module allowing students to develop a solid process and approach to future drama school auditions.

The course covers a broad range of training techniques and performance styles to create versatile and adaptable actors who have a strong sense of individuality and identity.

Skills-based classes and performance work throughout the training will include:

Improvisation
Character
Classical & Modern Text
Voice
Actors’ Movement
Devised Performance
Creative Studies
Audition Preparation

DATES

TERM 1	23 September – 5 December 2013	Mon, Wed & Thu 7pm - 10pm
TERM 2	13 January – 27 March 2014	Mon, Wed & Thu 7pm - 10pm
TERM 3	22 April – 3 July 2014	Mon, Wed & Thu 7pm - 10pm

FEES

COURSE FEE: £2,150 AUDITION FEE: £25

APPLICATION & ADMISSIONS

Admission onto the course is by audition. Applicants must be aged 18 years or over at the commencement of the course. To apply, click here.

AUDITION DATES

Saturday 8 June

Saturday 6 July

Saturday 3 August

Candidates will need to prepare:

One Shakespeare monologue
One monologue from a modern play (written after 1979)

Please note that monologues must:

Last no longer than two minutes each
Be from published plays and should not be extracts from poems, novels, film or television scripts
Involve a character chosen from the candidate’s own gender and age group
Be performed in the candidate’s native accent

Further information will be sent once an audition date is confirmed.