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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 - £320 - 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 SKILL RESIDENTIAL COURSES
Tonbridge 19 to 23 August 2024 (£700) - 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)
London Waterloo 12 to 14 August 2024 (£320) - 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 with sound and lighting kit and then learn about how to rig equipment and how to control it. You will work with professional theatre designer Libby Todd for a day of creativity, model making and understanding of the design process. With discussion and practical experience, you will learn about the distinct roles in stage management and how they manage a musical, and you will also get to practice your show calling skills. On the final day you will observe the dress rehearsal of Catastrophe Bay at Southwark Playhouse with the opportunity to talk to the team and reflect on everything you have learnt.
BOOK NOWPAGE BY PAGE - CREATIVES COURSE (Non Res)
London Waterloo 19 to 21 August 2024 (£320) - 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. You will begin by learning how the director (Alex Sutton) approaches and analyses the script. You will then take part in workshops led by Matt Cole (Choreography) and Katy Richardson (Musical Direction) to understand how the initial ideas can then develop during rehearsals. In small, collaborative groups, you will create your own theoretical production of "Our House". With input from Rebecca Brower, a professional Theatre designer, and working alongside a team of actors, you will bring your visions to life, culminating in a presentation of your ideas to your course leader and peers. As the final part of your process, you will understand how to run a tech and dress rehearsal by observing rehearsals for the NYMT production of “Our House” alongside the creative team at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant.
BOOK NOWNOTE BY NOTE - WRITERS COURSE (Non Res)
London Waterloo 12 to 14 August 2024 (£320) - This new course is for young writers, composers and anyone with an interest in writing a musical. Over three days you will work with writers Liv Warden and Charlie Turner to get an understanding of how to combine the book with the score to tell a compelling story. Working from your existing ideas, you will create your own material which can serve as a pitch to Directors and Producers, alongside learning about the practicalities of life as a creative in the Theatre industry.
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