CERTIFICATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THEATRE ARTS

UCAS Code: W410

One year intensive acting skills development Audition technique coaching Preparation for advanced acting training

This course provides a foundation in acting and can prepare you for further study, either at East 15 or at other conservatoire drama schools.

The intention is to help create actors who will have an intellectual as well as a vocational life in the theatre, introducing you to the concepts and mechanics behind each.

The Certificate of Higher Education in Theatre Arts is a highly focused

and aims to introduce you to the context that gives each theatrical era its distinctive identity. This includes (on a practical level) movement, music, improvisational skills and acting. Overall, it is an intensively practical programme.

Throughout the three terms, students undertake a number of compulsory modules. These cover audition

singing. During the first two terms at the Southend Campus, you are also introduced to acting courses that specialise in Stage Combat,

Theatre and World Performance.

A focus on acting, voice, singing and movement studies Explore imaginatively through various means of communication and learn about the roots of theatre practice Begin to study yourself in the same way you will learn to study a character, deepening your understanding of what it means to be human Work on audition technique The term culminates in an assessed studio-based performance to a small invited audience of staff and students

Focus on heightened, poetic and classical texts and their characters Begin to establish approaches to textual analysis and the use of improvisation Again, the term culminates in an assessed studio-based performance to a small invited audience of staff and students

Bring together all of the skills and experience developed throughout the course The course then culminates in performances at our Campus theatre spaces

AFTER EAST 15

During the year, students may audition for places on one of the BA courses at East 15. Many students are also accepted at other drama schools or at university drama departments. Students will be helped to choose and prepare scenes for audition purposes.