Acting

This module offers a range of sessions in movement-based, vocal, and textual practices to enable you to develop essential skills as an actor/performer. You will develop technique in improvisation and expressivity with specialist tuition in two essential acting techniques, laying the foundation for further exploration in Year 2.

Throughout this module, acting classes are tutor-directed production. The production will suit the group range and interests as well as the needs of audiences. Work may include contemporary approaches to classical texts, devised work, and non-western theatre. You will also take responsibility for production with professional technical support.

This module encourages you to make psycho-physical, imaginative and intellectual connections with ‘the rediscovery of theatricality’ in the 20th and 21st century by modernist and postmodernist theatre artists.

You will have an introduction to contemporary texts and the role of the actor. The module develops skills related to theatre, radio, and television scripts. You will practice acting techniques used for radio and television. You will look at differing acting styles, microphone techniques, camera awareness, and shots or angles. It will also familiarise you with the grammar encountered in these environments.

You'll work on a real production and perform to a public audience in this module. You'll be expected to put into practice many of the acting techniques acquired over the previous years however this module will focus on analysis and understanding of the text and the techniques used to explore the play and character.

In this module you'll produce a piece of work to be shown to the public, put many acting techniques into practice. You'll gain the opportunity to investigate the concept of the actor as a creator and develop a creative or performance skill.

This module will prepare you to gain entry into the acting profession. You'll learn the structure of life as an actor and the organisations such as Equity, Spotlight and Casting Networks you'll be a part of. You'll look at casting, audition technique and building your own website, as well as financial matters to aid you.