Ours is a high-octane course at the end of which you will have acquired complete artistic and mercantile self-sufficiency in order to embark upon a professional acting career.

We achieve this through upward spiralling five-week cycles of rehearsal, performance and filming of challenging literary texts, dramatic and otherwise (scenes, acts and, eventually, full scripts), underpinned by the ancillary subjects of Voice, Movement, Singing and Dance, including their sub-categories, and punctuated by bi-term, full-day business workshops where topics covered will go from developing the basic articles of the profession (CV, Headshots etc) to the creation of independent stage productions.

We base our programme on the knowledge that distinctive Individuality is the skilled actor’s only guarantee of commercial success.  Therefore, the repertoire of scripts to work on is selected and organized in a careful progression adaptable to the needs of the group and the individual student.

Our regime is one of intense periods of work of moderate length interspersed with ‘breathers’. There will be four ten-week terms with one half-term break each.

Teaching contact hours are tightly distributed across three consecutive days in each week. Independent rehearsal time and space is allocated at the end of each contact teaching day; the rest of the week is left for reflection, personal study and further rehearsal.  

Students are expected to prepare some assignments, practical and written, in between contact teaching days. These assignments will form a Learning Journal & File. 

Because non-contact teaching time is agreed upon individually with each student, they will be able to commit to part-time or hourly paid employment if desired.

These conditions will be challenging not so much on their stamina, as we do not promote arduous work routines, but on their ability to be thorough, punctual and organised