Three Year Acting Course


The Three Year Acting Course provides a comprehensive training for actors of exceptional talent.


Disciplines


During the course, students might expect to engage in the following disciplines:


Acting and Improvisation Voice, including the speaking of verse Movement, both pure and abstract Singing, including choral and solo Textual Interpretation and Analysis Alexander Technique Physical Theatre, including neutral mask, clown and melodrama Stage Combat


Dance, including tap, jazz, flamenco and historical (ranging from the medieval farandole to the 20th


century foxtrot) Career Skills and Professional Preparation for the Industry Professional Preparation


Three kinds of ‘performance’ accompany classwork: scene studies, workshops and fully realised productions. Plays


During the course, students might expect to experience a variety of performance styles, including: Greek; Shakespeare and Jacobean; Restoration; 19th and 21st


Century Russian Naturalism; Modern Realism; 20th


Century Plays; Music Theatre; New Writing, in collaboration with a playwright; and Acting for Camera and Microphone.


Unique to the Academy is the LAMDA Long Project, which takes place at the end of the second year and in which students collaborate with a writer and director to produce the ‘first draft’ of a new work. This may be developed further to become a full production in the final year. Two of these projects have gone on to be National Theatre productions: Mother Clap’s Molly House by Mark Ravenhill and Di Trevis’ Remembrance of Things Past. A further production, Robin Soan’s Mixed Up North enjoyed a national tour as an Out of Joint and Octagon Theatre Bolton production.


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 are invited. Those students eligible to work in the USA and Canada are able to join others in their final year in LAMDA’s Industry Showcases in New York and Los Angeles. All students attend lectures, seminars, open auditions and classes on sight-reading by visiting members of the industry to ensure that they are fully prepared to enter the profession.


Admission is by audition and interview.


Funding: Students on this course from the UK and EU are eligible for higher education funding.


Qualification: BA (Hons) in Professional Acting. Validated by the University of Kent. Accreditation: National Council for Drama Training.


Recorded Media


Television and Film begin at the end of the first year with skills and practices of screen acting. During the course, students learn how to make their own film and work with visiting professional directors, camera and sound operators, actors and casting directors. The work culminates in the final year with the making of a short film of broadcast quality.


Course Structure


As the course proceeds, the emphasis passes from intense classwork towards complete performance in roughly the following proportions: first year – 85% classwork/15% performance, second year – 60% classwork/ 40% performance and third year – 15% classwork/85% performance.


All such ‘performances’ are closed to the public until the final year. Some third year productions tour after performing in London.


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