We ran this course a few months ago and proved popular on TV Chix
This two day acting course is aimed at either building confidence in a friendly workshop group via drama and acting. Aimed at the beginner some students will be from the TS/TV community. It is a 10 hour course held over 2 days 10am to 4pm o the Saturday and 11am to 2pm on the Sunday.
We have cast two TS girls in productions in the last six months, playing TS girls, both were new to the profession and had small roles, but both wanted to get better training to go for bigger roles, not just playing TS girls but any female role they would fit the look for, hence this special course was born. We also have used a TS director in a recent play. Of course, roles in TV and stage are not just for TS to play TS, nothing stopping you going up against gen females for roles.
I think Spotlight list 5 TS actors in the whole of the UK, we know most of them including one amazing actor who is a CD, who is now in Harry Potter in the West End.
Extra agencies also look for correctly cast people, so lots of work there also, not our area but I think extras earn about £80 per day plus food.
There are 5 TS professional comics on the comedy circuit (we trained 3 of them), lots of drag queen type performers, who do comedy but we are not going to be teaching you how to be a drag queen, we are going to teach you how to act, both with modern and classical scripts.
We have changing rooms here, where you can get changed if coming from male mode, one thing we ask is that during the two day course, you wear either dance wear or T shirt and jogging bottoms as you will doing plenty of movement.
The course consists of the following
* You will given two Shakespeare speeches prior to the course working with our theatre director and casting director for 'Shakespeare in the Park' (one comical and one serious) to get you to performance and drama school audition standard.
*You will learn one modern speech and perform various scenes both scripted and improvised from plays.
*You will perform a scene from a well known Chekhov play and scenes from a 'Brechtian' style play
* You will learn to act and sight read to the camera
*You will be given an emotional recall to perform and work on voice and accents.
* You will look at skills needed for panto, late 19th century plays and easy ways to learn lines and team acting exercises.
* You will undergo basic stage fighting
The cost of the two day course is £95
The course by the way is fully tax deductible if self employed as it is classed as a improving your communication course.
You can book online with the theatre direct or call the box office on 0208 694 1888.
I am a casting director for a major Shakespeare company and the artistic director here and will be running the course.
The course is open to all and great fun
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