Acting Company

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

Self Tape Details

Please prepare a monologue of your choice, no longer than two minutes and email it to satc@afperformingarts.com

DEADLINE FOR SELF TAPE SUBMISSIONS: 3rd February 2025

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.

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