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 – taking you from Elizabethan playwrights through to writers working 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.
Each week is designed to enhance your performance skillset, giving you the opportunity to work closely with specific plays within the classical cannon – including William Shakespeare, John Webster and Carol Churchill – and integrating specialisms of historical dance, singing and stage combat into your work. Your semester culminates in informal sharings performed for an invited audience of LAMDA peers and 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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