Photograph: Richard H Smith Commetariat – Ben Deery / Riv Director: Penny Cherns Doug Lucie
The Acting Courses
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LAMDA believes that individual talents and skills develop best out of a
communal work-ethic. Great emphasis is placed throughout the course
on the individual’s responsibility to the group, and the group’s
responsibility to the individual.
erman – Tom McCall / Band – Joanna Hollister & Rebecca Hamw
The training neither seeks to teach skills superficially, nor to de-construct
the individual in order to re-build a LAMDA product. Rather, the aim is to
encourage and develop talents already innate in each student.
The courses concern themselves with the development of the imagination
and with fostering skills and the appropriate applications of them through
sensitive and creative understanding of the dramatic moment.
LAMDA is a liberal institution. It believes in free speech. In pursuit of
excellence in its training, the Academy uses plays and other forms of text
of the broadest possible reference, that express as wide a range of views
and beliefs as possible. The training therefore requires students willing
to personate in dialogue, personality and appearance, any character these
writings may involve including roles of either gender and any race or creed.
Acceptance of a place at LAMDA will be deemed acceptance of the Academy’s
training requirements.
At LAMDA, progress is encouraged through conversation, practice and
example. As LAMDA is part of Higher Education, we are obliged to operate
a regulation grading system. These grades will be divulged to students
on request, but the faculty considers grading to be counter-productive
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to our learning ethos and recommend no reference be made to them.
Preparation for self-management is integral to the LAMDA training.
At intervals throughout the courses, students will learn about agents,
casting directors, taxation, industry structure and methodology –
to provide a well-informed context for their work as actors.
Classes are mostly conducted in groups of twelve to fifteen.
Admission to these courses is by audition. All students must be 18
by the beginning of their training; there are no other age restrictions.
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