These classes are designed for children who have a passion for acting! In this class the children work on plays, scripts and learn drama techniques involving characterisation, improvisation, practitioner work and staging. The students do touch upon voice work and learn how to strengthen the acting voice, this can be done through vocal warm ups and also small amounts of singing. The students perform at a theatre each year!
The children learn the following:
- How to create a strong character
- The different elements of staging
- How to improvise and devise performances
- Different theatre techniques such as narration, freeze frames, story telling
- How to use other drama practitioners exercises to strengthen a performance
- Vocal skills including clarity of diction, audibility and modulation
- Script work – learning lines, writing stage notes, script analysis
- Confidence in performing in front of an audience