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Summer Course Fees
Skills Courses
Residential - £700 - includes training, pastoral care and full board accommodation for 5 days.
Non Residential - £450 - includes training, pastoral care for 5 days.
Writers, Creatives & Technical Courses
Non Residential - £230 - includes training, pastoral care for 3 days.
Course fees are payable in instalments and payment plans are offered. We provide help for all participants on how to raise funds for themselves.
We will send you a specially written guide that is packed with great ideas. We would encourage all participants to undertake fundraising activities for themselves and others.
STEP BY STEP - PERFORMER’S SKILLS COURSE (Non Res)
These fantastic weeks allow you to grow in confidence, meet friends for life and learn new skills. You will develop your singing, dancing and acting ability by focusing on each in turn, and then learn how to use all three when working with our brilliant teams on classic musical theatre repertoire. These rigorous courses allow you to learn more about acting through song by interpreting the words and the score, how to build a character, and how to convey the story through movement. You will work with our creatives to build a short musical extract to showcase all that you have learned which will be performed on the last day.
BOOK NOWSTEP BY STEP - PERFORMER’S SKILL RESIDENTIAL COURSES
These fantastic residential weeks allow you to grow in confidence, meet friends for life and learn new skills. You will develop your singing, dancing and acting ability by focusing on each in turn, and then learn how to use all three when working with our brilliant teams on classic musical theatre repertoire. These rigorous courses allow you to learn more about acting through song by interpreting the words and the score, how to build a character, and how to convey the story through movement. You will work with our creatives to build a short musical extract to showcase all that you have learned which will be performed on the last day.
BOOK NOWPIECE BY PIECE - TECHNICAL COURSE (Non Res)
No theatre production can survive without its backstage crew, the most vital and practical members of the team. Join our new Technical Course to get hands-on experience across the different departments: Stage Management, Lighting, Sound and Production. Work with industry professionals to get an insight into how they collaborate to make a show go from design to stage. Opportunities then exist by invitation only to work on one of the main theatre productions in the Summer. This course is for 16-23 year olds only.
BOOK NOWPAGE BY PAGE - CREATIVES COURSE (Non Res)
Over three days you will work alongside a professional Director, Choreographer and Musical Director to discover the process of bringing a musical from page to stage. From the initial discussions over design content, the research and development of the Director, decisions over orchestration and the early preparations for creating the choreography, to the day of auditioning your cast with a casting director and actors in the room, you will be guided how to create your own productions and given tips and advice from the real world of professional theatre. You need to be either one of the three disciplines to do this course, and you need to bring with you an outline idea for a show which you will develop during the course. This course is for 16-23 year olds only.
BOOK NOWNOTE BY NOTE - WRITERS COURSE (Non Res)
NOTE BY NOTE - WRITERS COURSE Summer Non Residential - Monday 12 August - Wednesday 14 August. Have you ever wanted to have a go at writing musicals? This brand-new course is for young people interested in the craft of making musicals and finding their voice as writers. Over three days you will work alongside book writers, composers and lyricists from the industry to learn about the form of musical theatre including story and narrative, crafting songs, shaping character and how all the elements can combine to tell a compelling story. This course is designed to be an introduction to the world of writing, and no experience is needed. However, for those who are serious about writing musicals, the course will also touch on how to pitch your idea and approach directors and producers. Course leaders are all working in the field of new musicals so can also offer practical advice and guidance.
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