Credit Points: 15
Study Time: 150 Hours

In this unit you are required to reflect upon and take responsibility for your own individual acting preparation. Your skills as an actor will now include a critical sense of your own contribution to company work and an awareness of your own process and development. This unit stresses the rigorous nature of actor training and expects you to display greater capacity, range, technical understanding and professional discipline. You will continue to work individually and to participate within and contribute to the ensemble. Seminar discussion will interrogate aspects of the practical work at appropriate moments of each programme and introduce supportive research material. Emphasis in this final skills unit is placed upon extending your initiative, confidence and responsibility for independent physical and vocal preparation.

Outline Syllabus – Voice
An indicative guide to the content covered by this unit:

• Presentation/Public Speaking Techniques 
• Peer teaching in group work-outs 
• Story Telling
• Consolidation of voice work done in previous units

Outline Syllabus – Singing
An indicative guide to the content covered by this unit:

• Singing at least one song with confidence in an appropriate style 
• Application of vocal and acting skills to a song 
• Exploring and expanding musicality 
• Development of a personal repertoire

In Chorus

• Participation in an extended musical theatre excerpt

Outline Syllabus – Movement
An indicative guide to the content covered by this unit:

• Devised practice
• Increased physical stamina and flexibility 
• Peer teaching in movement preparation 
• The use of the body in a free and expressive manner 
• A personal warm up that continues the process of practicing efficient patterns

Method of Delivery
Studio Practice, lectures, group learning, physical skills classes, independent learning, peer and self- evaluation.

Aims

A1 To enable you to develop a comprehensive knowledge and application of a range of physical and vocal skills in performance
A2 To enable you to operate confidently and flexibly within complex and varying contexts, utilising a wide range of innovative or established techniques
A3 To reflect upon and take responsibility for your own individual acting preparation
A4 To provide you with an awareness of your personal responsibility and to incorporate a critical ethical dimension in the process of collaborative practical work
A5 To encourage you to realise your full potential as a unique creative artist

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit you will be able to:

LO1 Demonstrate an effectively refined range of innovative physical and vocal skills
LO2 To demonstrate a confident and flexible ability to operate within complex and varying contexts, utilising a wide range of innovative or established techniques
LO3 Demonstrate the imaginative application of a range of physical and vocal skills in performance
LO4 Demonstrate that you can operate confidently and effectively in a collaborative working environment
LO5 Demonstrate a critical self-awareness of your future potential to become a unique creative artist

Reference Material

VOICE
Key
Rodenburg, P. (1997). The Actor Speaks. London: Methuen.

Recommended
Atkinson, J. (2004). Lend me your ears. London: Vermilion.
Berry, C. (2000). Voice and the Actor. London: Virgin.
Houseman,B. (2002). Finding Your Voice. London: Nick Hern Books.
Linklater, K. (2006). Freeing The Natural Voice. London: Nick Hern Books
McCallion, M. (1998). The Voice Book. London: Faber & Faber.
Morrison, M. (2001). Clear Speech. London: A&C Black.
Rodenburg, P. (2001). The Need for Words. London: Methuen.

BODY
Key
Lecoq, J. (2000). The Moving Body. London. Methuen.
Newlove, (2003). J. Laban for All. London: Nick Hern Books.

Recommended
Brook, P. (1995). There Are No Secrets: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre. London: Methuen Drama.
Fo, D. (1992). The Tricks of the Trade. London: Methuen.
Lecoq, J. (2006). Theatre of Movement and Gesture. London: Routledge.
Murray, S. and Keefe, J. (2007). Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader. London: Routledge.