About the course
Experience renowned British conservatoire training across one intense, exhilarating semester in the heart of London.
Running each Autumn and Spring, our Semester Programme is designed to introduce you to LAMDA’s leading actor training. You’ll explore classical and contemporary texts from across British theatre history – journeying from Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights through to writers making work in the Post-War era.
Structured around the core skills of acting, movement and voice, the course is taught through project-focused, practical classes, immersing you physically and textually into the character, language and narrative of the classics you will be interrogating.
Each week is designed to enhance your performance skillset, giving you the opportunity to work closely with specific plays within the classical cannon. This could include William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Barry Reckord and Carol Churchill. You will also engage with movement, historical dance, voice, singing and stage combat in your skills classes. Throughout the course you will perform in informal sharings for an invited audience of your peers and LAMDA staff.
At its heart, this course represents LAMDA’s ethos and commitment to the ensemble, nurturing individual students’ unique talents whilst promoting the shared responsibility of working creatively together. Through this course, you’ll gain the tools to become an independent and creative artist from an internationally recognised performing arts institution.
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