Acting Company

Overview

Mondays: 6.45 pm to 9.15 pm

 

PRODUCTION TERM DATES20th January 2025-7th April 2025

14th April 2025-30th June 2025 (no classes on 21st April 2025 and 26th May)

Tech rehearsal 6th July 2025

Performance Dates 7th & 8th July 2025

N.B. Students MUST be available to attend the tech rehearsal. Failure to attend will result in not being able to perform in the shows.

 

PRODUCTION TERM FEES£560 if paid up front in full

OR

Two monthly direct debit instalments of £280

OR

8 monthly direct debit instalments of £70

 

Courtyard Theatre
The Courtyard Theatre, 40 Pitfield St, London N1 6EU

CLAIRE AMIAS Claire is a RADA trained actor. She has worked extensively on stage and screen. She also acts, writes and directs for her theatre company A Monkey With Cymbals. On-screen Claire has played main supporting roles in numerous feature films including Mabel Smith in Borley Rectory (alongside Reece Shearsmith), Ms. Conrad in Telling Lies (alongside Jason Flemyng and Melanie Brown), the Young Nurse in Provoked (which starred Miranda Richardson and Robbie Coltrane), and Beattie in The Magic Hour. Stage roles have included Mags in Handbagged and Sheila in Relatively Speaking at Windsor Theatre Royal and on tour, and Maggie in Hobson’s Choice and Liz Essendine in Present Laughter at Chesterfield Pomegranate Theatre all for Paul Taylor-Mills. Also I have performed in several No 1 Tours – Funny Peculiar for Bill Kenwright and Handbagged for Eleanor Lloyd Prods.

Ever wanted to perform in a play? Are you conscious about confidence? Or budding to be brave? Then our Acting Company is the exciting opportunity you’ve been looking for! Our Acting Company is suitable for those that have completed at least one term of Stage & the City’s Acting for Intermediates or Acting for Improvers or with equivalent experience elsewhere. Put your skills into practice by building a character in a contemporary play with a public performance at a London theatre, whilst developing skills and confidence and fitting around your working life.

In the next term, we will begin to rehearse The Ghost Train written by Arnold Ridley

Arnold Ridley’s classic comedy-thriller, The Ghost Train, was first produced in 1925 and has been a firm favourite with professional and non-professional theatre companies ever since. Six passengers find themselves stranded late at night in the waiting-room of an isolated Cornish railway station. Ignoring the ghostly tales and dire warnings of the stationmaster, they decide to stay where they are until morning – with terrifying consequences. Finally, all is revealed and the details of a fiendish plot are laid bare.

This production will be taking place at the Courtyard Theatre on 7th and 8th July 2025.

If you are offered a place in the company and wish to accept it, you will be required to commit to THE FULL PRODUCTION TERM including the show dates. If you withdraw before the show dates full fees for both terms will still be due.

You will be developing the following skills set:

  • Comedic timing
  • Perform in a naturalistic acting style in a slice-of-life comedy/drama
  • Movement work to help play characters unlike your own physicality in a naturalistic way
  • Text analysis – to help play the given circumstances
  • Ensemble acting work
  • Vocal work to help develop character, clarity and projection

For a place on this course, please click the BOOK AUDITION button below to secure your audition spot.

Please note if you are already a member of the Acting Company and know you would like to continue, you do not need to book an audition spot below, you would just pay your fees for the production terms and audition as normal.

Please note that as we are an adult performing arts school, any video footage or photographs taken during your class may be used on our social media for marketing and promotional purposes.

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