Acting, BA Hons

This is a full-time, three-year programme designed to prepare students for varied careers as professional actors.

The programme is aimed at giving you the adaptability, flexibility and openness needed to sustain a career in the stage, screen and audio industries. Ours is the only actor training programme to offer acting for camera throughout the duration of your studies. Throughout the programme you explore your creative, vocal and physical potential and are shown current operational methods and practices enabling effective and professional work.

The programme provides thorough training in the core areas of acting, movement and voice and throughout the programme these skills are integrated in a series of focused projects including Shakespeare, TV and radio.

Students will enhance their capacity to learn in a disciplined, organised manner and develop skills leading to self-reliant learning. The programme is fully based in the practice of performance, benefiting from the high levels of expertise of the practising professionals who make up ALRA's teaching and directing staff.

Learning to be an actor is an ongoing process - your training will never be finished.There are always new depths to reach, new skills to acquire, new information to take in to help you play a character. This programme is the beginning of that process.

Aims of the programme

To give students the widest possible range of job opportunities by helping them to develop a variety of skills.
To train students for a range of performance mediums, enabling them to become versatile performers.
To help students to develop a range of broad professional skills.

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Location

Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA)

Attendance

3 years full-time

Entry requirements

Applicants should have:

EITHER two A-levels

OR a BTEC National Diploma in performing arts with a high profile

OR an AGNVQ in performing arts.

• ALRA may also consider applicants without these qualifications who have an exceptional level of practical ability.

• Selection is made on the basis of audition.

• Candidates for whom English is not a first language must demonstrate a level of fluency appropriate to training as a professional actor.

Assessment

Students are assessed through coursework and performance.

Professional recognition

You will gain full Equity membership through accreditation from the National Council of Drama Training.

Career options

Graduates are equipped for careers as actors or other performance roles.

Year 1

Building Performance 1 (15 credits)
Acting Studies 1 (30 credits)
Voice Studies 1 (30 credits)
Movement Studies 1 (30 credits)
Contextual Studies 1 (15 credits)

Year 2

Building Performance 2 (30 credits)
Acting Studies 2 (30 credits)
Voice Studies 2 (15 credits)
Movement Studies 2 (15 credits)
Contextual Studies 2 (30 credits)

Year 3

Live Performance (30 credits)
Recorded Performance (30 credits)
Professional Practice (30 credits)
Contextual Studies 3 (30 credits)

Your time at university should be enjoyable and rewarding, and it is important that it is not spoilt by unnecessary financial worries. We recommend that you spend time planning your finances, both before coming to university and while you are here. We can offer advice on living costs and budgeting, as well as on awards, allowances and loans.

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