PARTNERS AND LINKS

CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS
DRAMA FOUNDATION COURSE

This one-year course, designed and delivered in association with RADA, provides an exciting and challenging introduction to the world of theatre, and prepares students to apply for further vocational training. Fundamental to the Foundation is the focus on audition coaching, monologue development and the core disciplines required for future study. Students benefit from a number of master classes delivered by visiting specialist RADA tutors. During the year the students attend performances of several RADA productions and complete the RADA Shakespeare Certificate examinations.

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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

For over 10 years, New York University Tisch School of the Arts has been collaborating with RADA to deliver a widely acclaimed Shakespeare in Performance programme. This course has given over 250 students from the United States, the opportunity to become immersed for a semester in the world of Shakespeare, absorbing the skills necessary to tackle many areas of Elizabethan and Jacobean Theatre.

During the semester there are presentations involving Song, Dance, Sonnets, Combat, Clowning, Monologues and Scene Study; there are two Play Projects and the program concludes with an ensemble Studio Production in one of the Academy’s theatres.

The program contains a notable amount of one-to-one teaching, while the comprehensive series of skills classes offered reflects the ‘conservatoire’ training for which RADA is renowned.

This training is not available in the United States, and New York University has designated it as “a learning opportunity that is second to none”.

See a video of some recent Shakespeare in Performance students talking about the course and what it meant to them.

Recruitment is the direct responsibility of TISCH Special Programs and if you need more information please do not hesitate to contact them at:

Tisch School of the Arts,
Office of Special Programs
721 Broadway, 12th Floor
New York NY 10003

Phone: 212 998 1500 Fax: 212 995 4578

The Lir: Ireland’s National Academy of Dramatic Art at Trinity College Dublin

The Lir, is a new academy for the Dramatic Arts at Trinity College Dublin which is being developed with collaboration from the Cathal Ryan Trust in association with RADA. It will offer conservatoire-style training for the theatre and related professions and its philosophy of training and courses will be modelled on RADA.

Construction of the refurbished, state-of-the-art premises for The Lir started recently. Autumn of 2011 will see the opening of the academy, and the application process has just been launched for the inaugural 2011/2012 Bachelor in Acting course.

The Lir will be situated in the Trinity Technology and Enterprise Campus at Grand Canal Dock which is close to the new cultural quarter of Dublin around the Grand Canal Theatre. The building will include a flexible black box studio, two further performance studios, a dance studio, a technical workshop, and a range of flexible teaching spaces.