BA (Hons) in acting

COURSE OVERVIEW

The three year BA in Acting (validated by King’s College London) is a vocational training designed to provide a thorough preparation for a career in a wide variety of media, including theatre, television, film and radio.

For an insight into the BA Acting course, read the blogs written by third year BA Acting student, Adam Jackson Smith and first year BA Acting students, Sarah Kenny and Verity Kirk.

The Programme

The programme includes the development of individual skills in the areas of acting, voice and movement, and their application in a variety of projects and productions across the three years. Work is continuously assessed and students have regular feedback sessions with teachers. The aim is to train actors with a high degree of technical facility and flexibility, but also, individuality and imagination. The course includes work on contemporary plays and styles and classes in camera and microphone technique.

The training is classically based because we believe this provides the best possible foundation for acting in any form or media.

The training includes:

• Stanislavsky-based rehearsal exercises and project work
• improvisation
• contemporary and classical text
• performance projects on Greek Tragedy, Shakespeare and the Jacobeans, Restoration Comedy and contemporary writing
• acting for camera and microphone technique
• voice training, including dialect training, individual and choral singing
• movement training, including mask, dance and stage combat

Professional Development

Throughout the course professional development sessions introduce guest speakers from across the industry.

Public Productions

Students first perform to the public at the end of the summer term of their second year. This will a production that tours schools. The third year is spent mainly in rehearsal and performance of productions for one of RADA’s three theatres. These productions are attended by agents, casting directors and industry professionals.

Mentoring

Final year students benefit from the RADA Buddy mentoring scheme.

Industry Showcase

The ‘Tree’ performance by final year students takes place in April each year and is named after the Academy’s founder, Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Students present scenes or speeches to an invited audience of agents, casting directors and industry professionals.

Prospectus

View a full copy of our current PROSPECTUS.

Blogs

For an insight into the BA Acting course, read the blogs written by third year BA Acting student, Adam Jackson Smith and first year BA Acting students, Sarah Kenny and Verity Kirk.

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