Drama, dance and speech
Click here to see a video of our students latest work.Our part-time drama class programme offers a vibrant, vigorous, creative choice of courses that reaches out to all adults whatever their background, age and aspiration - from acting and comedy to technical production and much more. Graded ‘outstanding’ in a recent government inspection, we provide drama courses of a very high standard that range from complete beginners to professional drama training workshops, where you can develop your imagination, sense of play and expand emotionally. Many of our drama tutors are professional practitioners. In addition to our varied programme for all levels we also run the City Lit Rep Company to help actors build their professional portfolio. Many of our part-time drama courses fill very quickly, so please book early!
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To find our more about our drama classes, contact:
Tel: 020 7492 2542 Email: drama@citylit.ac.uk
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- Acting the text stage 1
- Acting the text stage 2
- Acting the text stage 3
- Acting: courage workshop for big emotions
- Actors' studio
- Devising: making contemporary performance level 2
- Getting into drama school
- Introduction to Brecht
- Introduction to the Meisner technique
- Laban for actors (find a character using his system)
- Meisner: introduction to text work
- Method acting
- Performance lab for professional actors
- Stanislavski workshop
- Acting through improvisation
- Acting through improvisation: follow on
- Acting: ways into text 1
- Acting: ways into text 2
- Actors in training 1
- Actors in training 2
- Actors in training 3
- Improve your improvisation
- Improvisation towards text
- Introduction to sightreading skills for actors
- Introduction to Stanislavski
- Performance impro: sketches
- Performance impro: the play
- Progress your improvisation skills
- Remove acting blocks to create character
- Theatre workshop 2
- Comedy sketch show
- Improvisation to comedy
- Radio comedy writing and performance
- Stand up comedy
- Stand-up comedy workshop
- Stand-up comedy: intensive workshop
- TV and radio comedy: create and perform it part 1
- TV and radio comedy: create and perform it part 2
- TV and radio comedy: create and perform it part 3
- TV comedy acting: Gervais to Curb
- American tap: stage 1
- American tap: stage 1a
- Ballet: at the barre
- Beginners flamenco
- Beginners lyrical ballet
- Beginners' classical ballet
- Beginners' contemporary dance
- Beginners' jazz dance
- Beginners' street dance
- Classical ballet 2
- Contemporary dance level 2
- Creative jazz
- Dance and stretch
- Early morning dance moves
- Flamenco Andalucia 1: absolute beginners
- Flamenco Andalucia 1: fast beginners
- Flamenco Andalucia 1: lower elementary
- Flamenco Andalucia 2: elementary
- Flamenco Andalucia 2: lower elementary
- Flamenco Andalucia 2: upper elementary
- Introduction to belly dancing
- Introduction to burlesque
- Introduction to dance
- Introduction to lindy hop (swing)
- Introduction to samba
- Jazz technique
- Lyrical jazz
- Musical theatre dance
- Sunday Afro-tango/Kizomba
- Sunday ballet
- Sunday ballet: floor-barre
- Sunday ballroom
- Sunday ballroom improvers
- Sunday Broadway tap
- Sunday Flamenco in performance
- Sunday introduction to tap
- Sunday jive
- Sunday Merengue
- Sunday salsa
- Sunday salsa Afro-Cuban dance
- Sunday tango
- Tango Argentino
- Tap techniques
- Tap workshop
- Cabaret workshop
- Musical theatre day
- Singing for actors: audition workshop
- Singing for actors: performance workshop
- Singing for actors: repertory level 1
- Singing for actors: repertory level 2
- Singing for actors: technique level 1
- Singing for actors: technique level 2
- Singing musical theatre to performance 1
- Singing musical theatre to performance 2
- Singing musical theatre to performance 3
- Accents for actors 1
- Acting in Shakespeare
- Agents' and casting directors' masterclass
- Alexander technique for all performing artists
- American accents for actors
- Audition success
- Audition success day
- Auditions for getting into accredited drama courses
- Casting director, director and you
- Casting: improve your chances
- First auditions
- Mock audition and casting feedback workshop
- Networking made fun
- Scene rehearsal: contemporary British, Irish and American drama
- Secrets of acting Shakespeare
- Shakespeare auditions
- Shakespeare scene workshop )
- Shakespeare's big speeches
- Shatter your lack of self-belief
- Sightreading skills for actors
- Sightreading skills for audition
- Sightreading skills for audition (drama)
- Six proven steps to focus
- Speaking Shakespeare
- The physical approach to scene study
- Acting for camera stage 1
- Acting for camera stage 2
- Acting for radio: 1
- Acting for radio: 2
- Advanced camera work
- Audition for camera
- Camera, TV and film-making skills
- Children's TV presenting
- Creating character voices
- Find your way in TV presenting
- How to present yourself to camera: TV presentations for business
- Make a short film in a term
- Make a short film in a weekend
- Making a radio programme
- Practical screen acting
- Radio presenting
- Story-telling through film
- TV presenting auditions
- TV presenting for beginners
- TV presenting level 2
- TV presenting level 2: weekend
- Working in voiceovers
- Working in voiceovers 2
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