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Discover the system of realistic acting that most professional actors use today — the approach to training, characterisation and rehearsal technique developed by the legendary Konstantin Stanislavski.
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Explore training, characterisation and rehearsal techniques through improvisations, exercises, and contemporary texts. Develop emotional expressivity, channel a character’s inner life, and practise scene analysis.
Please note for course DRB042 there will be no classes on Bank holidays - 4 & 25 May 2026.
What will we cover?
We will explore the major principles and techniques of Stanislavski’s ‘system’, examining each of its elements in isolation at first. These include tasks and action, given circumstances, relaxation in performance, sense memory and emotional authenticity, dramatic analysis and interpretation, and the uninhibited expression of physical and psychological impulses. We will then apply these skills to the development of a character and the preparation of a short scene from a contemporary text.
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...
Relax under pressure and immerse yourself more fully in an imagined reality. Use your self as a creative resource in the development of characters and in meeting the emotional demands of a scene. Express yourself more fully and uninhibitedly in performance. Analyse a dramatic scene in relation to the story as a whole and extract significant information about character, action, circumstances, and structure. Make appropriate choices about characterisation and scene-interpretation, with particular regard to the shaping of an engaging story, and adjust your performance in relation to them.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
You need to have completed an acting beginners course, here or elsewhere, or have suitable experience. You will need to be able to take notes and to work within groups and pairs cooperatively. You should be able to express yourself and communicate clearly. In addition to performing you should have an interest in reading and discussing texts in large and small groups. You will be willing and able to do some preparation and rehearsal outside of class. The course involves some physical exercises. You will need to be able to listen and respond to instructions and feedback and be interested in listening to, and learning from, the responses of other students to the work discussed, observed, and performed. You will have a commitment to developing your performance, analytical, and expressive skills.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
We will use games, improvisations, characterisation and physical expressivity exercises, tutor input, group discussion and analysis, and the rehearsal of scenes from a contemporary text. This is a practical course in which students will work alone, in pairs, and in groups, according to the exercise. Each week, homework preparations are given that extend and develop the techniques covered in class and prepare you for what we will explore in the following session.
HEALTH CHECK You may or may not be asked to participate in vigorous 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?
You may find a copy of Uta Hagen’s book, Respect for Acting useful (either the first or second edition), a notebook and pen and a pencil and rubber for script annotations. You will also need to be dressed in loose-fitting clothing that allows you to move freely and wearing trainers or plimsolls.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
You could enrol onto Stanislavski workshop for further exploration of the system and consider a course in Method acting. Acting Improvers, and or begin screen acting classes are all suitable progressions.
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.
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Deirdre is a supportive and dynamic acting, drama and accent tutor at Citylit. She trained in acting in NYC and at RADA , and studied Performance and Culture at Goldsmiths (MA). Her directing credits include new writing workshops of Shaken by Louise Page and staged readings of plays and musicals at RADA, a devised play The Disunderstood at CityLit; she has also directed large scale Music Hall Events for The Portico Gallery. As a writer, plays include Waking Beauty, The People Downstairs (Young Vic, Shortlisted for LWT Plays On Stage), The Lizzie Play directed by Rufus Norris (UK and international tours, Time Out & Playbill Critic's Choice) A Cautionary Tale for the National Theatre Studio, and Betty Has To Go Now, commissioned for the 2013 Solo Theatre Festival. Performance credits include Betty Has To Go Now, Adult Child/Dead Child, and What Happened to the Tyrant, Bessie in Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mount Morgan (West End world premiere), Joanna in Home Free (directed by Kathy Burke), Jeeves and Wooster (ITV) and Simon Gray's Unnatural Pursuits (BBC TV)
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.
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Please note that acting classes by their very nature can involve exercises and the exploration of material that some students may find challenging.Relax under pressure and immerse yourself more fully in an imagined reality.<br/>Use your self as a creative resource in the development of characters and in meeting the emotional demands of a scene.<br/>Express yourself more fully and uninhibitedly in performance.<br/>Analyse a dramatic scene in relation to the story as a whole and extract significant information about character, action, circumstances, and structure.<br/>Make appropriate choices about characterisation and scene-interpretation, with particular regard to the shaping of an engaging story, and adjust your performance in relation to them.You need to have completed an acting beginners course, here or elsewhere, or have suitable experience. You will need to be able to take notes and to work within groups and pairs cooperatively. You should be able to express yourself and communicate clearly. In addition to performing you should have an interest in reading and discussing texts in large and small groups. You will be willing and able to do some preparation and rehearsal outside of class. The course involves some physical exercises. You will need to be able to listen and respond to instructions and feedback and be interested in listening to, and learning from, the responses of other students to the work discussed, observed, and performed. You will have a commitment to developing your performance, analytical, and expressive skills.We will use games, improvisations, characterisation and physical expressivity exercises, tutor input, group discussion and analysis, and the rehearsal of scenes from a contemporary text. This is a practical course in which students will work alone, in pairs, and in groups, according to the exercise. Each week, homework preparations are given that extend and develop the techniques covered in class and prepare you for what we will explore in the following session.<br/><br/>HEALTH CHECK<br/>You may or may not be asked to participate in vigorous activity from time to time. Please consider whether you could do this, if you are in any doubt consult a medical practitioner. <br />
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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.You may find a copy of Uta Hagen’s book, Respect for Acting useful (either the first or second edition), a notebook and pen and a pencil and rubber for script annotations. You will also need to be dressed in loose-fitting clothing that allows you to move freely and wearing trainers or plimsolls.You could enrol onto Stanislavski workshop for further exploration of the system and consider a course in Method acting. 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We will then apply these skills to the development of a character and the preparation of a short scene from a contemporary text.Relax under pressure and immerse yourself more fully in an imagined reality.<br/>Use your self as a creative resource in the development of characters and in meeting the emotional demands of a scene.<br/>Express yourself more fully and uninhibitedly in performance.<br/>Analyse a dramatic scene in relation to the story as a whole and extract significant information about character, action, circumstances, and structure.<br/>Make appropriate choices about characterisation and scene-interpretation, with particular regard to the shaping of an engaging story, and adjust your performance in relation to them.You need to have completed an acting beginners course, here or elsewhere, or have suitable experience. You will need to be able to take notes and to work within groups and pairs cooperatively. You should be able to express yourself and communicate clearly. In addition to performing you should have an interest in reading and discussing texts in large and small groups. You will be willing and able to do some preparation and rehearsal outside of class. The course involves some physical exercises. You will need to be able to listen and respond to instructions and feedback and be interested in listening to, and learning from, the responses of other students to the work discussed, observed, and performed. You will have a commitment to developing your performance, analytical, and expressive skills.We will use games, improvisations, characterisation and physical expressivity exercises, tutor input, group discussion and analysis, and the rehearsal of scenes from a contemporary text. This is a practical course in which students will work alone, in pairs, and in groups, according to the exercise. Each week, homework preparations are given that extend and develop the techniques covered in class and prepare you for what we will explore in the following session.<br/><br/>HEALTH CHECK<br/>You may or may not be asked to participate in vigorous activity from time to time. Please consider whether you could do this, if you are in any doubt consult a medical practitioner.You may find a copy of Uta Hagen’s book, Respect for Acting useful (either the first or second edition), a notebook and pen and a pencil and rubber for script annotations. You will also need to be dressed in loose-fitting clothing that allows you to move freely and wearing trainers or plimsolls.You could enrol onto Stanislavski workshop for further exploration of the system and consider a course in Method acting. 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We will then apply these skills to the development of a character and the preparation of a short scene from a contemporary text.Relax under pressure and immerse yourself more fully in an imagined reality.<br/>Use your self as a creative resource in the development of characters and in meeting the emotional demands of a scene.<br/>Express yourself more fully and uninhibitedly in performance.<br/>Analyse a dramatic scene in relation to the story as a whole and extract significant information about character, action, circumstances, and structure.<br/>Make appropriate choices about characterisation and scene-interpretation, with particular regard to the shaping of an engaging story, and adjust your performance in relation to them.You need to have completed an acting beginners course, here or elsewhere, or have suitable experience. You will need to be able to take notes and to work within groups and pairs cooperatively. You should be able to express yourself and communicate clearly. In addition to performing you should have an interest in reading and discussing texts in large and small groups. You will be willing and able to do some preparation and rehearsal outside of class. The course involves some physical exercises. You will need to be able to listen and respond to instructions and feedback and be interested in listening to, and learning from, the responses of other students to the work discussed, observed, and performed. You will have a commitment to developing your performance, analytical, and expressive skills.We will use games, improvisations, characterisation and physical expressivity exercises, tutor input, group discussion and analysis, and the rehearsal of scenes from a contemporary text. This is a practical course in which students will work alone, in pairs, and in groups, according to the exercise. Each week, homework preparations are given that extend and develop the techniques covered in class and prepare you for what we will explore in the following session.<br/><br/>HEALTH CHECK<br/>You may or may not be asked to participate in vigorous activity from time to time. Please consider whether you could do this, if you are in any doubt consult a medical practitioner.You may find a copy of Uta Hagen’s book, Respect for Acting useful (either the first or second edition), a notebook and pen and a pencil and rubber for script annotations. You will also need to be dressed in loose-fitting clothing that allows you to move freely and wearing trainers or plimsolls.You could enrol onto Stanislavski workshop for further exploration of the system and consider a course in Method acting. 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Develop emotional expressivity, channel a character’s inner life, and practise scene analysis.</p><p>Please note for course DRB042 there will be no classes on Bank holidays - 4 &amp; 25 May 2026.</p>Discover the system of realistic acting that most professional actors use today — the approach to training, characterisation and rehearsal technique developed by the legendary Konstantin Stanislavski.We will explore the major principles and techniques of Stanislavski’s ‘system’, examining each of its elements in isolation at first. These include tasks and action, given circumstances, relaxation in performance, sense memory and emotional authenticity, dramatic analysis and interpretation, and the uninhibited expression of physical and psychological impulses. We will then apply these skills to the development of a character and the preparation of a short scene from a contemporary text. <br />
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Please note that acting classes by their very nature can involve exercises and the exploration of material that some students may find challenging.,We will explore the major principles and techniques of Stanislavski’s ‘system’, examining each of its elements in isolation at first. These include tasks and action, given circumstances, relaxation in performance, sense memory and emotional authenticity, dramatic analysis and interpretation, and the uninhibited expression of physical and psychological impulses. We will then apply these skills to the development of a character and the preparation of a short scene from a contemporary text.Relax under pressure and immerse yourself more fully in an imagined reality.<br/>Use your self as a creative resource in the development of characters and in meeting the emotional demands of a scene.<br/>Express yourself more fully and uninhibitedly in performance.<br/>Analyse a dramatic scene in relation to the story as a whole and extract significant information about character, action, circumstances, and structure.<br/>Make appropriate choices about characterisation and scene-interpretation, with particular regard to the shaping of an engaging story, and adjust your performance in relation to them.You need to have completed an acting beginners course, here or elsewhere, or have suitable experience. You will need to be able to take notes and to work within groups and pairs cooperatively. You should be able to express yourself and communicate clearly. In addition to performing you should have an interest in reading and discussing texts in large and small groups. You will be willing and able to do some preparation and rehearsal outside of class. The course involves some physical exercises. You will need to be able to listen and respond to instructions and feedback and be interested in listening to, and learning from, the responses of other students to the work discussed, observed, and performed. You will have a commitment to developing your performance, analytical, and expressive skills.We will use games, improvisations, characterisation and physical expressivity exercises, tutor input, group discussion and analysis, and the rehearsal of scenes from a contemporary text. This is a practical course in which students will work alone, in pairs, and in groups, according to the exercise. Each week, homework preparations are given that extend and develop the techniques covered in class and prepare you for what we will explore in the following session.<br/><br/>HEALTH CHECK<br/>You may or may not be asked to participate in vigorous activity from time to time. Please consider whether you could do this, if you are in any doubt consult a medical practitioner. <br />
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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.,We will use games, improvisations, characterisation and physical expressivity exercises, tutor input, group discussion and analysis, and the rehearsal of scenes from a contemporary text. This is a practical course in which students will work alone, in pairs, and in groups, according to the exercise. Each week, homework preparations are given that extend and develop the techniques covered in class and prepare you for what we will explore in the following session.<br/><br/>HEALTH CHECK<br/>You may or may not be asked to participate in vigorous activity from time to time. Please consider whether you could do this, if you are in any doubt consult a medical practitioner.You may find a copy of Uta Hagen’s book, Respect for Acting useful (either the first or second edition), a notebook and pen and a pencil and rubber for script annotations. You will also need to be dressed in loose-fitting clothing that allows you to move freely and wearing trainers or plimsolls.You could enrol onto Stanislavski workshop for further exploration of the system and consider a course in Method acting. Acting Improvers, and or begin screen acting classes are all suitable progressions.configurable
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