Acting and Drama

Acting Lessons

Within our Acting and Drama Lessons we work on a wide variety of drama work from literary elements including story line (plot), character (how to create), story structures (rising action, turning point and falling action), conflict, suspense, theme, language, style, dialogue suspense. 

Throughout our drama sessions we develop acting skills such as improvisation and devising, acting for screen, stage acting, naturalism, physicality, mime, narration and voice over, emotional depth, non verbal acting and body language. We look at physicality, movement, focus, tension, space, time and language to create our characters, combining a series of episodic structure, dramatic irony, symbols and imagery.

We actively encourage our students to think outside of the box when creating their characters to develop their creative choices.

Drama classes

In our Drama Classes we'll work through Preparation for Auditions, Learning Dramatic Plays and Prose,  Pantomime and Melo Drama skills, create Physical Theatre and Soundscape Devised Pieces.

Each term we offer a different element of drama whether that be Stage Acting, Acting for Screen, creating a play or dramatic piece, working on the context / speech for a Shakespeare play or a poem or a piece of prose. We develop not only confidence but characters ensuring correct breathing, intonation, pause and focus. We look at techniques used to create and embody the characters we portray focusing on creating believable characters starting with devising and improvisation, physicality and vocal dynamic workshops including articulation, accent and dialect and projection. 

We'll be using Conventions such as flash-back, tableau, freeze frame, mime, monologue, movement, narration, voice over, soliloquy, split stage and many other theatrical techniques all of which compliment our Live Performances, Casting and Auditions and Optional Examinations.

Advanced Drama Technique workshops

For older and more experienced Drama students we look and complex techniques and methodologies. Physicality practices such as the Alexander Technique and Laban Movement Analysis. Drama Practioners such as Stanislavski, Brecht and Le Coq as well as looking at drama origins such a Commedia dell'arte and the Theatre of the Absurd. 

Optional Examinations can be undertaken in speech and drama from initial grade through to grade 8 and onward to Diploma level ATCL and LTCL, in both Performing and Teaching.