Recreational Courses for Adults

Intro to Acting (8 Weeks) $230

Intro to Acting gives participants a chance to find out what acting is all about in a supportive and fun environment. The emphasis is on working collaboratively and unlocking the sources of your creativity. Don’t worry if this is your first go at acting – jump in and see what happens.

Wednesday 7:30 - 9:30pm

July 7 - August 25
September 15 - November 3

Or

Thursday 7:30 - 9:30pm

July 8 - August 26
September 16 - November 4

Acting 1 (10 Weeks) $340

If you’ve completed the Intro course or done some acting basics elsewhere you’ll probably be ready to move to the next level. Acting 1 starts with improvisation and self-devised work before moving on to basic text analysis and rehearsal techniques. The focus here is on developing greater confidence in performance and discovering further techniques to allow fuller, uninhibited imaginative responses.

Wednesday 7:30 - 9:30pm

July 14 - September 15

or

Friday 7:30 - 9:30

July 9 - September 10

Acting 2 (10 Weeks) $340

Acting 2 is primarily a scene-study workshop. It assumes that you have some performance experience and are interested in developing your ability to interpret and utilise text and to finesse your acting skills. Participants may decide to work towards a workshop performance for an invited audience in the last week or so of the course.

Sunday 2:00pm – 4:00pm

July 18 - September 19

Intro to Acting for Camera (8 weeks) $340

Guided by an experienced screen actor this course explains the basics of acting for film and television. While useful for those with little acting experience, it will be of greatest benefit to students who have an understanding and some experience of stage acting.

Saturday 2:00 - 4:30pm

July 3 - August 21

Or

Sunday 2:00 - 4:30pm

July 4 - August 22

Tutors Include...

Trent Baker

Trent is a graduate of the WAAPA acting program and the VCA post graduate directing course. He was one of the 12 actors to form Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, where he directed Brilliant Traces and appeared in The Lights, Down the Road and Psychopathia Sexualis. He has also directed True West, Knives in Hens, Burn This, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Actor’s Nightmare and an outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet. For MTC Trent was assistant director to Simon Phillips on Festen. He has three times played the title role in MacBeth for MTC Education and appeared in Still by Jane Bodie at The Malthouse. Other theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Wind in the Willows, Boys Life, The Bear, the one man show Van Gogh and Corpus Christi. He has recently completed touring with Bell Shakespeare in their Actors at Work program.

Scott Gooding

Scott Gooding has been a director, actor and tutor for over 16 years. He has worked for many of Melbournes theatre companies and has been running courses in filmmaking, animation and acting throughout the city. He has been working at the National Theatre Drama School for the past year, and is also Artistic Director of Vicious Fish Theatre.

David Myles

David Myles worked in the UK, USA and Europe for 25 years with acclaimed companies such as the National Theatre of Great Britain, The Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, as well as the BBC, ITV and Paramount Pictures. In Australia he has directed drama, music theatre and opera for the MTC, Playbox, Victorian Arts Centre and the Melbourne, Adelaide, Port Fairy and Castlemaine Festivals.

Also;

Brett Adam, Scott Bowie, Caroline Craig, Spencer McLaren and Leon Teague.

Contact David Harford on 03 9534 0223 or drama@nationaltheatre.org.au for more information.