Acting Company
Overview
Mondays: 6.45 pm to 9.15 pm
| WINTER TERM | 12th September 2022-28th November 2022 |
| SPRING TERM | 9th January 2023-27th March 2023 |
| WINTER TERM | £275 |
| SPRING TERM | £285 |
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 Arcadia written by Tom Stoppard.
Arcadia moves back and forth between 1809 and the present at the elegant estate owned by the Coverly family. The 1809 scenes reveal a household in transition. Present day scenes depict the Coverly descendants and two competing scholars who are researching a possible scandal at the estate in 1809 involving Lord Byron. This brilliant play moves smoothly between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time, the difference between classical and romantic temperaments, and the disruptive influence of sex on our life orbits the attraction Newton left out.
This production will be taking place at the Courtyard Theatre on 3rd and 4th July 2023.
If you are offered a place in the company and wish to accept it, you will be required to commit to BOTH TERMS 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 AUDITION NOW button below to secure your place for our workshop style audition taking place on the first day of term.
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