Acting for Beginners – Mondays

We are holding a £10 taster evening on the 16th September for anybody unsure about signing up for the full course. Click here for more details. Feeling nervous? Don’t be! Check out our blog about first day nerves and the challenges of starting something new.

Looking for fun acting classes in London?

Have you ever wanted to act? Do you find yourself watching your favourite movie over and over and wondering what it would be like to play that part? This 12-week acting course will teach you the fundamentals of acting. You will build up a toolkit of acting skills enabling you to unlock character, help spontaneity and free your inner performer from inhibition. We strongly believe in the value acting classes provide for improving self-confidence and life skills.

For the upcoming Winter Term, you will be using scenes from Agatha Christie’s Spiders Web to develop skills in character and scene development. Building the scenes as an ensemble group you will explore the skills required as an actor when performing a play. As part of the term, in Week 11 you will have the opportunity to watch the play being performed by Stage & the City’s resident Acting Company and compare your scenes to theirs. This is also a great opportunity to see how you could potentially progress with Stage & the City in your acting journey.

Anyone who has ever acted will tell you, there is no greater feeling than taking to the stage in a persona wholly of your own. There is nothing as rewarding as holding the audiences’ hearts in your hand and feeling their collective pulse quicken as the drama unfolds. There is nothing like acting and no better time to try it than now.

Once you have completed a term, you may feel ready to join our Ensemble Company or even audition for our resident Acting Company!

We are so confident that you will love this course that we are offering you a Win Win offer! If you do not enjoy your first class, let us know within 24 hours and you will receive a full refund minus the cost of the first class.

Why not make a night of it?

Sign up for our Acting for Confidence Course taking place straight after this class (8 pm – 9.15 pm) and get an extra 10% off. Just enter code ACAB at checkout.

Unsure about signing up for the full course? Join us for a £10 Taster Evening by clicking the button below. 

ALL profits from this course will go towards the Fiorentini Foundation and helping disadvantaged children access the performing arts.

Click BOOK NOW to secure your place on this course.

Direct debit payment plans are available, email satc@afperformingarts.com for more details and to set up and someone will get back to you within 48hrs to arrange.

*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.

(Subject to Minor Changes)

Specific skills you will learn this term include: Scene work, Performance, Ensemble Work.

• WEEK ONE – Welcome acting games and trust building
• WEEK TWO –Story telling – what is storytelling and how do we achieve it
• WEEK THREE –Body and image – using a montage to tell a story
• WEEK FOUR-Saying Yes – accepting what is offered and offering back – scene building
• WEEK FIVE – Building a scene – allowing the scene to develop naturally
• WEEK SIX –Setting goals in improvisation.
• WEEK SEVEN – Conflict and how to resolve it.
• WEEK EIGHT-Accessing emotion
• WEEK NINE-Use of props
• WEEK TEN – Watch Stage & the City’s Acting Company production of Spiders Web
• WEEK ELEVEN-Scene work/improvisation
• WEEK TWELVE-Scene work/improvisation

If you do not enjoy your first class, let us know within 24 hours and you will receive a full refund minus the cost of the first class.