No Messing around and No Babysitting!

With Demanding West End Shows / Tours and TV shows artists are now expected to be proficient and experienced in all disciplines - singing, acting and dancing.

 

Our theatre school full scale productions have included Chicago, Legally Blonde, Annie, A Chorus Line and High School Musical in Theatres such as Exeter Northcott, Exeter Barnfield and Exeter Phoenix. We showcase every single student in our shows. We also perform regularly on the West End including His Majesties, Sadler's Well's and the Shaftesbury theatre. 

 

The vocational development programme will give students the essential skills required to audition for theatre school.

The vocational development programme will be once a week. Three hours for seniors or One hour 45 minutes for Juniors.

​​No experience needed just lots of energy and commitment. 

​​The vocational course will focus on the three main disciplines:

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1. Hour 1; will be dedicated to musical theatre dance training; including jazz, ballet, tap and hip hop technique.

 

​2. Hour 2; will be an acting technique class, focusing on warm ups, speech exercises, voice technique, scenes from plays, monologue work for auditions and improvisation.

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3. Hour 3; students will have the opportunity to learn ensemble and solo singing technique. Students will be taught how to warm up the voice, harmonise, blend, and will learn important soloist techniques (mix, belt, twang).

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For the older students there will also be a chance for one on one sessions if applying to drama school.

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Throughout the year there will be visiting performers from the West End giving giving workshops in their field of expertise. For example Luke Baker who plays Dean in 'Everybody's talking about Jamie'

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Once a year there is a showcase musical for family, friends and industry professionals. Theatre Agents are invited and attend our showcase and have signed our students (Patrick Management have many of our students on their books). The showcase is an important part of vocational training as it takes what has been taught and developed in technique classes onto the stage. Every major drama school has a showcase in their final year of training. A showcase consists of each student getting the chance to show off their dance, singing and acting. The content of this show usually consists of small snippets from west end shows but we still go a journey with the story and material of each show. 

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​We explore each discipline slowly, from scratch. We will learn how each technique works. If you haven't had any training, this doesn't matter. We all have to start somewhere. We are always growing and developing and our confidence improves through performing. There are no other theatre schools in the area that can offer this level of training.

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We are a LAMDA training centre so students are able to take examinations in Acting and musical theatre. These exams are great for audition technique. In all of our solo exams students have achieved Distinction's.  

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RDTS students have graduated onto GSA, Arts Ed, Italia Conti, Bodyworks, ALRA, Hammond, Performers, Royal Welsh, London Studio Centre, Bird College. Students have also appeared in BBC feature films, music videos, adverts and as part of NYMT / NYT.