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CYGNET COURSES
 
Three Year Professional Acting Course
 
Formal training in voice, movement, music, dance and video film are all part of the daily work of the company but rehearsal and performance remain strong features of the experience-based training.
 
Intensive short courses are built in to the training for Stage Fighting and Radio Techniques First year actors play small parts proceeding via medium roles during the second year to leading roles chosen to give them the best possible showcase during the third year.

Each year is divided into three terms of 12 weeks. Teaching, rehearsal and assessment are the focus of week 1 - 8 in the Autumn and Spring terms. Two weeks of production work are then followed by in-house performances and touring in the South-West during weeks 11 & 12.

In the summer term the company works in smaller groups on a season of studio plays alongside further touring of the previous terms’ productions. The summer term usually gives actors the experience of open-air performances and working as a repertory company. Cygnet regularly takes one or two productions to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Showcase productions to London.

The course runs for nine terms starting in September
Entry is possible in January in special circumstances. Additional options:

Acting with Music
Acting with Directing

                      To download course prospectus click here
 
 
 
 

Entry qualifications

Applicants must be 18 years or over.
No specific qualifications are required.
Entry is by audition, interview and workshop in which vocal and movement potential, co-ordination, singing, sight-reading and group-work adaptability and attitude are assessed

To download course application form click here

Policy

Cygnet accepts flexible young actors with a mature attitude who are expected to work with a fully professional commitment from their first day. High standards of technique and flexibility are aimed for and, amongst others, the disciplines of Stanislavsky and Michael Chekhov are in constant use. Cygnet has good professional standing as a touring company and aims to provide maximum contacts and work opportunities for its actors at the end of their three years with the Company. The ethic on which the Company's work is based is strongly influenced by Peter Brook.

Because Cygnet's method of training in a working theatre environment is unique, it is not a conventional drama school. Cygnet actors have an exceptionally high success rate in obtaining professional work as a result of appearances and contacts made during training and as a result of the professional polish that so much experience of public performance gives them.

This, and the fact that the fees are low because the actors are in part working for their training, should encourage local education authorities to give financial help to applicants who obtain places, of which there are only six each year.


The Trustees and staff of Cygnet feel strongly that, in the present economic climate,worthwhile and meaningful theatre needs nurturing for the future, for the sake of both actors and audiences. The fact that Cygnet's training includes touring and day-to-day working experience in a theatre company, gives new actors the necessary knowledge to generate work of their own if they wish to do so.



 

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CYGNET TRAINING THEATRE is a Member of the Conference of Drama Schools

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