We offer classes in drama, theatre craft, film and musical theatre, providing young people with a range of opportunities to be creative. Our next term of classes runs from 6th September – 4th December 2008, our half term break is 25-31st October 2008.
DRAMA
4-6 year olds
Monday 4.15-5.15
Thursday 4.15-5.15
Classes for this age concentrate on developing emotional vocabulary and self-expression. We use a range of games, art, story telling and music to explore stories and help children discover worlds beyond their own
7-11 Years
Monday 5.30-7.00
Saturday 9.30-11.00
In these classes we continue to stretch the children’s imaginations, whilst starting to explore concepts of theatre making, thinking about audience, story structure and key theatre skills.
11-13 years
Tuesday 5.00-6.30
Saturday 11.30-1.00
Young people in these groups work together to develop their own ideas and devise short theatre pieces based on new and well known plays, short stories, pictures, music and their own experiences.
14-16 years
Tuesday 7.00-8.30
Thursday 5.30-7.00
Our older members tackle more dramatic challenges, developing physical theatre skills, voice and character building workshops. Classes explore the opportunity to direct, act and improvise. We also look at theatre practitioners and techniques such as Commedia del’Arte.
FILM
7-11 Years
Tuesday 5.00-6.30
This class provides young people with the opportunity to explore concepts of film making. Learning simple techniques to shoot their own film, they will end the term as an official Movie Maker!
12-16 Years
Tuesday 6.30-8.00
Older members have the opportunity to explore more technical aspects of film making, making longer films and screening them at the theatre. The class can also be spent watching film and looking at how it is constructed.
MUSICAL THEATRE
7-11
Wednesday 4.30-6.00
Young people explore musical theatre styles, developing their singing and performance styles guided by our tutors.
THEATRE CRAFT
7+
Saturday 11.30-1.00
This class is an opportunity for children to explore the behind the scenes side of theatre making with short projects in set design, costume and make up etc throughout the year. As much as possible we try to link their ideas into our productions, so they can see their work in action! Our first project in September will be to help design the set for our next production of Beauty and the Beast!
To find out more please contact us.