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Beginner & Intermediate Acting / Theatre / Drama Classes

We are now taking bookings for January 2009. The beginner acting / drama course is aimed towards people with little or no experience in acting. The course will cover the following skills to develop a deeper understanding in preparation for the intermediate acting / drama course. Movement, Body Language & Character Acting Skills Find out how to represent a character physically and how to reveal a character’s inner feelings through body language.   Voice Skills Breath control, pitch, projection, lots of techniques to help you gain vocal confidence and versatility.   Character Work & Development How to take on the persona of someone with a different personality and motivations to your own.   Dramatic Text Analysis Skills Explore a dramatic text and find out how to identify subtext and linguistic clues about how to interpret the scene.   Audition Skills & Techniques How to handle the pressure of auditions and how to present yourself to the best advantage.   Sight Reading Skills Discover how to read and perform a piece of script that you have never seen before.   Verse Speaking Skills Guidance on how to approach and enjoy speaking Shakespeare’s language.   Method Acting Skills & Techniques Learn about this famous school-of-thought derived from Stanislavski.   Improvisation Acting Skills Fun games and exercises which encourage creativity, quick-thinking and team-work.

The Intermediate acting / drama course covers all on the subjects on the left in more depth PLUS the following; Classical Theatre Skills & Techniques Get to grips with the rich language of dramatists from Jacobeans to early C20th. Directors' Theories Learn about the techniques of great European thinkers like Brecht and Artaud.   Television, Film & Screen Acting Master the technical demands of acting for screen and learn how to make the camera your friend.

Acting Teachers

Cat Clancy

Cat trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and also has a degree in English Literature from Oxford University. Since graduating Cat has worked with the Peter Hall Company, the RSC, comedy sketch group The Hollow Men, and won the Cambridgeshire Critics Prize for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice at the ADC Theatre in 2004. Cat is also a professional singer and was selected as the soloist for Oscar-winning lyricist Don Black, in his masterclass series at the Theatre Museum. Cat writes and performs her own cabaret shows and has performed at The Ritz,and Pizza on the Park and Greenwich Music Festival.

Paul McNeilly

Paul trained at The Poor School and has been working extensively in TV, film and theatre for nearly twenty years. His many TV credits include: Our Friends In The North, Taggart, A Respectable Trade, Holby City, McCready and Daughter, The Bill and Cold Lazarus. Film includes: Outlaw, Saxon (Europen Independent Film of the Year 2008), Zebra Crossings (soon to be released) Shopping and Black Beauty. Paul is a founder member of NotGods Theatre Company, and has a film script in pre-production with New Town Films. Paul is also a writer and his plays have been performed at The Traverse, The Southwark Playhouse and The Old Red Lion.