Course details
This 10 week long course will expand on the skills and confidence developed in Introduction to Drama or a similar drama course. Students will study script writing, text analysis and character development necessary to create effective performance. Page to Stage will focus on the character devising process, developing scene work for performance to a high level.
Participants of Page to Stage can expect to:
- have the opportunity to approach and work with text creatively, plays are meant to be performed.
- get training in how to approach text from a performance perspective.
- experience rehearsal and all the investigation, repetition, emotional and physical exploration this involves.
- rehearse with a scene partner which is imperative performance training as acting is a group activity.
- experience and understand the actor-director relationship.
- bring these scenes to performance level and then perform them for an invited audience hence following the rehearsal process through.
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About Gaiety School of Acting
The Gaiety School of Acting – The National Theatre School of Ireland is a Not for Profit organisation founded in 1986 by the internationally renowned theatre director Joe Dowling, in response to the lack of full time actor training programmes in Ireland at that time. The school is now widely regarded as the country’s premier training facility for actors.
Their policy is to train actors for theatre, film and television. The school offers a two-year intensive acting programme and an extensive selection of part-time and tailored cTheirses for adults, teenagers, children and overseas students.The school has been providing professional actor training for almost 30 years and include Colin Farrell, Olivia Wilde, Colin O’Donoghue, Aidan Turner (Best Male Newcomer, Jameson Empire Awards 2014), Eva Birthistle (Best Actress Lead Television Award, IFTA 2014) Charlie Murphy (Best Actress, The Irish Times Awards 2013) and Sarah Greene (Tony Award Nominee 2014) as alumni of distinction.
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