Welcome to the BA (Hons) Acting Course. The Course you have embarked upon is essentially a vocational course whose principal aims are to provide a comprehensive acting training, and to equip graduates to work in the acting profession. It is also a degree course offering successful graduates a Bachelor of Arts with Honours qualification.

 Much of your work on this course will be dedicated to vocal and physical training, and to the exploration of a range of techniques for creating and developing character, and for working flexibly and responsively in the space. The modern actor is not just a puppet who regurgitates lines and moves for an audience, but a creative artist, using his/her inner resources to create truthful fictions, and constantly seeking new ways to communicate both physically and vocally. Part of the course will teach you to be original and individual in your work, to reinvent old techniques and develop new ones.

 The Italia Conti Acting Course does not seek to mould young actors to any one method or system for acting. Rather it tries to make available to its students the widest possible range of ideas and training methods, so that each student may begin to construct a personal way of working, whose development will continue throughout their life. The Course also aims to produce flexible performers who can work in as wide a range of styles or media as possible. Having said that, the course does have underlying theories of training and performance, as well as clear philosophies about the roles of drama in society, which permeate the teaching.