MA Acting

Term 1

• Acting technique – Stanislavsky, Meisner, Michael Chekhov
• Clown
• Rehearsal projects – Contemporary text, Naturalism project
• Movement – Laban, Chekhov, Core Strength and Flexibility, Yoga, Intimacy and Stage Combat
• Voice – Release and Vocal Connection, Singing for Actors, Connecting to Text
• Critical Appraisal – Developing a Reflective Practice (Essay)
• Screen – Acting for Screen, Self-tape Technique
• Professional Practice – Introduction to Industry Professionals

Term 2

• Acting technique – Practitioners examined in Term One will be applied to Scene Studies and Acting Clinic
• Rehearsal projects – Classical Text project, 20th/21st Century Iconic project
• Movement – Core Physical Skills continue, Laban, Animal Studies
• Voice – Vocal Presence and Projection, Singing for Actors, Dialect and Accent work
• Screen – Acting for Camera
• Professional Employment Skills – Audition Technique, Business Skills, sessions with industry professionals continue
• Critical Appraisal – Reflection and Observation Techniques, Annotated Bibliography

Term 3

• Performance – West End Showcase, Public Performance at ArtsEd
• Screen – Filmed duologues
• Professional Employment Skills – Professional Preparation and Development Plan
• Critical Appraisal – Performing Reflection (performance)

Inclusive and questioning, the course gives you techniques to work with classical and contemporary texts with imagination, truth and specificity. The course is vocational and highly practical where techniques are acquired through the year in classes, workshops and performances. Both theatre and screen acting is explored. The MA in Acting enables its graduates to have an autonomous, responsive process that is alive to the world around it, flexible to the needs of the industry, and full of the actor’s imagination and creative potential.

The MA course is based at studios at 2 Dukes Avenue in Chiswick, just a short walk from ArtsEd’s main building in 14 Bath Road. All MA students have full access to the resources in the main building, these include the library, canteen, and studio and rehearsal spaces. The latter are free to book outside of timetabled hours.

In the final term, rehearsals for the public performances take place in the rehearsal rooms at 14 Bath Road. The performances also take place there, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, our beautiful proscenium arch theatre run by our highly skilled in-house production team.