Acting (Taught)

The ArtsEd MA Acting course offers rigorous and intensive vocational actor training that enables you to harness your potential as a highly skilled, creative and autonomous actor.

You will be immersed in a dynamic and rigorous acting programme that is challenging and robust. Our team of experienced industry professionals will work with you to hone and develop your actor’s craft, enabling you to be prepared and resilient for the demands of the contemporary industry.

Inclusive and questioning, the course gives you techniques to work with classical and contemporary texts with imagination, truth and specificity. The course is vocational and highly practical where techniques are acquired through the year in classes, workshops and performances. Both theatre and screen acting is explored. The MA in Acting enables its graduates to have an autonomous, responsive process that is alive to the world around it, flexible to the needs of the industry, and full of the actor’s imagination and creative potential.

The MA course is based at studios at 2 Dukes Avenue in Chiswick, just a short walk from ArtsEd’s main building in 14 Bath Road. All MA students have full access to the resources in the main building, these include the library, canteen, and studio and rehearsal spaces. The latter are free to book outside of timetabled hours.

In the final term, rehearsals for the public performances take place in the rehearsal rooms at 14 Bath Road. The performances also take place there, in the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation Theatre, our beautiful proscenium arch theatre run by our highly skilled in-house production team.

Term 1
Acting technique – Stanislavsky, Meisner, Demidov, Viewpoints, Clown, Active Analysis
Rehearsal projects – Contemporary Theatre, Chekhov
The Expressive Body – Embodied Action & Awareness, Physical Skills, Laban, Meyerhold, Stage Combat
The Expressive Voice – Voice for the Actor, Singing for the Actor
Critical Appraisal – Developing a Reflective Practice (Essay)

Term 2
Acting technique – Developing character through Laban
Rehearsal projects – Shakespeare, Self Created work
The Expressive Body –Embodied Action & Awareness, Physical Skills, Meyerhold
The Expressive Voice – Voice for the Actor, Singing for the Actor, Dialect
Screen – Acting for Camera
Professional Employment Skills – Professional Preparation, Business Skills
Critical Appraisal – Performing Reflection (Performance)

Term 3
Performance – West End Showcase, Public Performance at ArtsEd
Screen – Acting for Camera
Professional Employment Skills – Professional Preparation & Development Plan
Critical Appraisal – Reflection (Essay)