The LAMDA Short Courses


The LAMDA Short Course programme has something for everyone. Whether you are:


a would-be actor or technician intending to apply for drama school and wanting an introduction to the rigours and reality of conservatoire training; a teacher looking to broaden your skill-set; or an enthusiast interested in an intensive practical encounter with the works of Shakespeare, Acting for Camera or Theatre Lighting.


Each course is run by the Academy’s regular practitioners, who lead the training on LAMDA’s longer full-time courses. The eight and four-week courses include a visit to see the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon and performances at London theatres, notably Shakespeare’s Globe, where a steady fl ow of LAMDA faculty and alumni have worked since its founding.


LAMDA Short Courses are intended to inspire the individual in a fun and creative conservatoire environment. The Academy has the experience to provide the very best in practical acting and technical theatre training. Why not come and join us.


For course dates and fees, please visit www.lamda.org.uk Qualifi cation for all short courses: LAMDA Diploma


Funding: No UK government funding or LAMDA Scholarships are available for these courses. Students have to be self-fi nanced.


Housing is available for all LAMDA Short Courses.


Please see the end of the prospectus or visit www.lamda.org.uk for admission details.


Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Eight Weeks – Mid-June to Mid-August)


This is an intensive classical acting course for students with some performance experience. The object of the course is to provide a more confi dent knowledge of poetic drama and to encourage creative attitudes towards solving the problems of performance. Classes, which do not exceed 15 students per group, are taken in:


Voice (pure and applied) Movement (pure and applied) Singing


Historical Dance Stage Combat Alexander Technique Textual Analysis and Verse Scene Study


Whilst the course is based on Shakespeare, the work of his contemporaries such as Marlowe, Jonson, Beaumont, Fletcher and the Jacobeans also features. The classwork culminates in an ‘open rehearsal’ for students and tutors.


Lectures on the social and historical background of Shakespeare’s world are also provided.


Shakespeare (Four Weeks – Mid-July to Mid-August)


This course is designed for students wishing to work on an intensive Shakespearean programme. The aim is to demystify Shakespeare: to prevent poetic drama seeming an unscalable mountain and to make the student as comfortable with this kind of drama as he or she is with naturalistic work.


Working with groups of 15 or less, LAMDA makes Shakespeare accessible through instruction in techniques to help the development of voice and body, with special emphasis on their relation to the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, textual analysis and history seminars.


The classwork culminates in an ‘open rehearsal’ for students and tutors.


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