Acting classes at the Guildhall School

The imagination is a muscle; perhaps the most important muscle in the body. Ken Rea's legendary acting classes at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama are designed to train and expand that muscle of the imagination. Although a lot of the exercises might seem wildly over-the-top, Ken stresses 'we must always be truthful. As an audience we must never see the exercise, we must never be aware of your technique. You learn your technique in order to make that invisible'. Ken also has a gift for empowering students to feel that they can create their own work. Other faculty members also teach acting; Wyn Jones teaches a technique called 'Look, Move, Speak', while Martin Connor takes students through the work of Stanislavsky and Meisner. A large part of learning about acting also takes place during various acting projects in the first and second years, and during the full-scale productions in the third year.

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Production credits: Harold Raitt (interviews, editor), Michael Pearce (location film director), Neil McIntyre (location sound recordist); all part of the team at http://www.seehearinteract.com / http://www.johannesfactotum.com.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• drama school
• acting classes
• university
• physical theatre
• warm-up exercises
• imagination
• voice
• language
• facial expressions
• improvisation
• flair
• virtuoso
• Stanislavsky
• look move speak
• rehearsal

[Charmedlassie18]

@sexylilthug77 This is about breaking down barriers, getting out your comfort zone and getting over being embarrassed.

[sexylilthug77]

@SECRETFATPIG acting is about not acting actually reliving an emotion and best of my knowledge no sitaution has ever demanded i stated swaying my body and mooing like a cow. this is ridiculous

[BertieWatsonMusic]

@TheFelicityCullen Yes you do :)

[chahid1992]

@Charmedlassie18 they called this embarresed how its still in a classroom kind of thing. i elso bein onn a theatherschool and whe did this stuff outside in public

[TheFelicityCullen]

Do you do any acting for camera at guildhall?

[SilverPinkBunny]

Why am I not in this class?! this sounds like fun!!!

[sexylilthug77]

how silly

[89gerardo]

this remind me to lecoq xD

[loudsoundman]

@SECRETFATPIG Nievty? Don't you mean Naivety? Nice one.