What you'll learn
Learn the art of performing a story with our acting courses in Sydney!
Sydney Community College is proud to present this acting course in partnership with Darlo Drama.
Improve your characterisation skills, become well-versed in establishing theatrical relationships, and build your confidence on stage by performing in front of an audience! This course will give you a fundamental understanding of the processes involved in staging a play, such as working as an ensemble, script analysis, props and costuming, and blocking. The main focus of this acting course is the final production: a series of excerpts from several different plays, performed to an audience of family, friends, and fellow students.
During this acting course, you should progress from performing a single scene to performing an entire play.
These classes will finally culminate in two weekend performances on Darlo Drama's Studio Theatre stage!
Learning outcomes
By the end of this acting course, you should be able to:
- Perform with clarity, energy and confidence
- Connect to multiple scene partners and build theatrical relationships
- Define and differentiate multiple characters
- Be more confident in performing in front of an audience
- Perform multiple characters and scenes on Darlo Drama’s Studio Theatre stage to an audience of family, friends and fellow students!
Course content
What will be covered in this acting course?
- Understanding how to use your body to convey a character's physicality, including posture, movement, and gesture.
- Developing a detailed and nuanced understanding of your character, including their backstory, motivations, and personality.
- Collaborating with other actors and understanding how to create a cohesive and believable performance as a group.
- Learning how to receive and incorporate feedback from directors and other members of the creative team.
- Analyzing scripts to uncover subtext and understand the underlying motivations of your character, and researching the historical and cultural context of the play or film.
- Understanding the technical aspects of stage movement, including blocking, stage positioning, and working with the set, lighting, and sound design.
- Using props and costume to enhance your character's physicality and stage presence.
- Creating believable and dynamic relationships with other characters, and playing multiple characters in a single production.
- Understanding how to convey subtext and maintain the through-line of a character's arc throughout a production.
- Learning how to use your voice and breath to enhance your performance, including proper vocal projection, articulation, and dialects.
Intended audience
Who is this acting course for?
This Beginner's Acting Class is ideal for any one who has
- completed Improvisation Classes for Beginners with this College
- attended our Beginner's Acting Classes Level 2: The Scene
- 40 hours or more of previous acting learning
- has performed in a theatre scene.
Course venue
Level 1, 16-18 Oxford Square, Darlinghurst NSW 2010
Course materials
What to bring to class
- Wear casual clothes with covered shoes
- A water bottle
Additional information
If you have no prior experience we recommend starting with Beginner's Acting Level 1: The Monologue, followed by Beginner's Acting Level 2: The Scene and Beginner's Acting Level 3: The Story. These courses will help to build your acting skills and then you can move on to Advanced Acting: The Play, and Advanced Acting: Actors Lab.
Course testimonials
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Sally said: Darlo Drama have created a great space for creative learning and building community. Sean O Riordan is a patient teacher who guided us through the 10 weeks to perform at our best in the end of term show. I've not only learnt about acting but made new friends of all ages on the course. Looking forward to the next one!
Course tutors
Darlo Drama
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