Three Year Acting Course
The Three Year Acting Course provides a comprehensive training As the course proceeds, the emphasis passes from intense classwork
for actors of exceptional talent. towards complete performance in roughly the following proportions:
first year 85% class/15% performance; second year 60% class/40%
disciPlines performance; third year 15% class/85% performance. Television
and Film work takes place in the second and third year.
During the course, students might expect to engage in the
following disciplines: During the third year of the course, two showcases of audition duologues
are given in a West End Theatre, to which agents and casting directors
Acting and Improvisation are invited.
Voice, including the speaking of Poetry
Movement, including Period Movement Some Third Year productions may tour after performing in the MacOwan
Singing, including choral and solo Theatre. Unique to LAMDA is a project that takes place at the end of the
Textual Interpretation and Analysis second year in which students collaborate with a writer and director
Alexander Technique to produce the “first draft” of a new work. This may be developed further
Physical Theatre (including clown, bouffons, and melodrama) to become a full production in the final year. Two of these projects have
Stage Combat gone on to be productions in the National Theatre repertoire.
Dance, including Tap, Jazz, Flamenco, Historic
History of the Industry Students eligible to work in Canada and the USA are able to join others
in their final year in performing a programme of duologues which LAMDA
Three kinds of ‘performance’ accompany classwork: scene studies, arranges to be presented in New York and Los Angeles, for agents and
workshops and fully realised productions. casting directors.
Plays adMission: by audition and interview.
During the course, students might expect to experience a variety Undergraduate students on this course from the UK and EU are eligible
of performance styles including: for Higher Education Funding.
Greek qualiFication: BA (Hons) in Professional Acting.
Shakespeare and Jacobean Validated by the University of Kent.
Restoration
19th Century Russian Naturalism accreditation: National Council for Drama Training
20th and 21st Century plays
Music Theatre
A play-making process
All such ‘performances’ are closed to the public until the Final Year.
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