BA Acting is structured as an organic process of development over three years (stages) and comprises: Main Study (Acting, Voice, Movement), Contextual Studies (Theatre & Character Analysis, Music), and Personal and Professional Development, including intensive professional preparation. Course work upholds a methodological approach to acting while developing your ability to work as part of an ensemble. Course methodologies derive from the work of leading artists and teachers from 20th century European and American theatre. These include Konstantin Stanislavsky, Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof, Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Bertolt Brecht, Joan Littlewood, Rudolf Laban and Yat Malmgren. The core technical disciplines (acting, voice, body) require a process of progressive and systematic development over three years. Many of the activities associated with these disciplines, such as regular classes and daily warm-ups, are about 'tuning the instrument'. Imaginative, analytical and critical faculties call for similarly careful and progressive development. At the heart of BA Acting at Drama Centre London is performance, a complex process of decision making and problem solving that calls for an interaction between conscious and unconscious activity, intuition and skill. All course teaching and learning activities culminate in rehearsal exercises, which are given before internal or public audiences. Stage One is entitled 'The Year of Subjectivity'. During this year you'll investigate the self and learn to move from the concrete to the abstract in your work. Stage Two is entitled 'The Year of Objectivity'. During this year you'll learn to locate your work within a conceptual framework. Stage Three is entitled 'The Year of Synthesis'. During this year you'll learn to merge learning elements and disciplines into a single organic process. BA Acting as a whole sets out to help you become an educated and trained actor, 'owning' your acting process and ready to enter the profession.

Our BA Acting Stage Three Showcase, presented before an audience of agents, casting directors and potential employers, opens doors to professional opportunities in London and beyond during the later stages of the course. In recent years, students still on the course have secured prestigious professional engagements, including: ‘The Rotters’ Club’ - BBC1 ‘What the Butler Saw’ - Hampstead Theatre and Criterion Theatre (West End) ‘Cymbeline’ - Cheek by Jowl at the Barbican and on a European tour ‘Macbeth’ – Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore’ – West Yorkshire Playhouse ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘Marat/Sade’ – Royal Shakespeare Company ‘Black Watch’ - National Theatre of Scotland, Barbican and New York 'The Physicists' - Donmar Warehouse Drama Centre London alumni include: Paul Bettany, Pierce Brosnan, Simon Callow, Frances de la Tour, Paola Dionisotti, Colin Firth, Tara Fitzgerald, Anastasia Hille, Geraldine James, Helen McCrory, Jack Shepherd, John Simm, Colin Tierney, Lambert Wilson, Penelope Wilton and many more. Adrian Noble (until recently Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company) and filmmaker David Leland are two of the many directors among our graduates. BA Acting aims to deepen your awareness of the profession in all its aspects, including the risks and uncertainties associated with the acting life. In addition to your education and training as an actor, we offer education and training for life and work through our personal and professional development programmes.