Acting: improvers
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- Course Code: DRM004
- Dates: 29/10/24 - 26/11/24
- Time: 18:15 - 21:15
- Taught: Tue, Evening
- Duration: 5 sessions (over 5 weeks)
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: Juliet Prague
Course Code: DRM004
Choose a start date
Duration: 5 sessions (over 5 weeks)
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What is the course about?
An opportunity to delve into contemporary playwrights, exploring the challenges, themes, acting styles and language that new writing brings up. While working on scenes from a variety of writers you will consolidate skills including spontaneity, connection and presence . There will be scene analysis, character work and improvisation as well as warm-up games and playful encounters.
What will we cover?
• Warm-up games, physical and vocal exercises
• Ensemble work
• Text analysis
• Improvisation
• Character investigation.
Please note that acting classes by their very nature can involve exercises and the exploration of material that some students may find challenging.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
• Access the work of contemporary writers
• Explore and analyse text confidently
• Bring a text to life
• Perform in a scene from a play with confidence.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This is an improvers class. Perfect for anyone who has completed a beginner’s course or has suitable experience.
In order to get the most from the course you will be able to:
• Listen and respond to instructions and feedback.
• Communicate clearly in discussion and drama practice.
• Read and respond to a variety of text.
• Give and receive constructive feedback.
• Take notes.
• Work within groups and pairs safely.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
In pairs, groups and individually.
HEALTH CHECK
You may or may not be asked to participate in rigorous activity from time to time. Please consider whether you could do this, if you are in any doubt consult a medical practitioner.
As part of the course content, your tutor may record your image for initial and ongoing assessment purposes. You are entitled to decline to participate in the recording of your image.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
Comfortable clothing should be worn. Bring a pencil and a rubber with you for annotating scripts. You may need a
notebook and pen in these sessions.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
You could enrol onto the next improvers course or Acting Workshop. Consider Improvisation or a course in Stanislavski.
Juliet Prague trained at the Drama Centre. Theatre is her first love; she was a founding member of Mkultra, a performance collective that presents work in the UK, Greece and Italy. Her extensive career as an actor includes 24 Hours at the Arnolfini (Bristol 2019), The Vagina Monologues (2019), Afterlives in Athens as part of the Hellenic Festival (2017), Circle of Blood shot in Niagara Falls by cult director Michael di Paolo (2014) and Square Rounds written and directed by Tony Harrison at the National Theatre. As director she has created theatre in unexpected places including art galleries and homeless communities. A skilled voiceover artist she has recorded many talking books and cartoons. She has also sung with Voicelab at the Southbank Centre. With her wide knowledge base including Stanislavski, the Method and Meisner Technique, Juliet has taught acting for over twenty years at City Lit, Regents University, Rose Bruford, Brunel, Royal College of Music, and has led training programmes for the corporate sector. She is also currently acting teacher at The Bridge Theatre Training Co.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
