Acting at Darlo Drama: The Scene

Learn Acting for Beginners (Level 2) with our acting & drama courses in Sydney.

Sydney Community College is proud to present this course in partnership with Darlo Drama, which will extend your skills, connect to a partner and build your craft.

This course is an investigation into naturalistic acting & drama techniques that will make your performances more convincing.

The first few weeks are spent exploring theatre and acting techniques through drama games and improvisation exercises. Once the scripts are handed out, you will be working with a scene partner and find out what happens on stage when someone talks back.

Level 2 culminates in an evening performance on Darlo Drama’s Studio Theatre stage!

Course outcomes

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• perform with energy and confidence
• connect to a partner and build a theatrical relationship
• respond "in the moment"
• be more confident in performing in front of an audience
• connect more vocally and physically to a character
• understand basic script analysis
• understand objectives, obstacles and actions
• understand principles of listening and responding organically
• perform on Darlo Drama’s Theatre stage to an audience of family, friends and fellow students!

Ideal for

Those who have completed the Acting for Beginners or Acting – Improvisation Classes for Beginners with this College or similar.

Course content

• Identifying objectives and playing actions
• Given circumstances
• Subtext and script analysis
• Connecting to a partner and relationship building
• Listening and responding
• Actor / audience relationship
• Building performance energy & stagecraft

Venue and getting there

Darlo Drama
Level One, 16-18 Oxford Square
Darlinghurst 2010

Darlo Drama is located on Oxford Square, which is right at the intersection of Riley Street and Oxford Street, in the heart of Darlinghurst.

Public transport

We are a five-minute walk from Museum Railway Station, straight up Oxford Street and a multitude of bus routes travel right passed our front door.

Parking

For those preferring to drive to Darlo Drama, street parking is available in the streets surrounding the school, but they are mostly metered and have a two-hour limit.
Most of our students prefer to park at Wilson Parking on Riley St, which is a short walk from Darlo Drama.
Wilson’s evening parking rate of $8 flat fee applies for entry AFTER 5pm and exit BEFORE 10pm.

Please bring to class

• casual clothes with covered shoes
• a water bottle