Acting Classes at Darlo Drama: The Story

What you'll learn

Learn the art of performing a story with our acting & drama courses in Sydney!

Sydney Community College is proud to present this acting course in partnership with Darlo Drama.

Improve your characterisation skills, become well-versed in establishing theatrical relationships, and build your confidence on stage by performing in front of an audience! This course will give you a fundamental understanding of the processes involved in staging a play, such as working as an ensemble, script analysis, props and costuming, and blocking. The main focus of this acting course is the final production: a series of excerpts from several different plays, performed to an audience of family, friends, and fellow students.

During this acting course, you should progress from performing a single scene to performing an entire play.

These classes will finally culminate in two weekend performances on Darlo Drama's Studio Theatre stage!

Learning outcomes

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

• Perform with clarity, energy and confidence
• Connect to multiple scene partners and build theatrical relationships
• Define and differentiate multiple characters
• Be more confident in performing in front of an audience
• Perform multiple characters and scenes on Darlo Drama’s Studio Theatre stage to an audience of family, friends and fellow students!

Course content

What will be covered in this acting course?

• Physical characterisation
• Defining character
• Working as part of an ensemble
• Taking direction
• Script analysis and actor’s research
• Blocking and stagecraft
• Working with props and costume
• Building multiple relationships on stage and playing multiple characters
• Subtext and through line
• Breathe, sound and articulation

Intended audience

Who is this acting course for?

• Those who have completed Acting Classes at Darlo Drama: The Scene or Improvisation Classes for Beginners with this College or similar courses elsewhere.
• Those who have performed in a theatre scene.

Course venue

Darlo Drama

Level 1, 16-18 Oxford Square, Darlinghurst NSW 2010

Course materials

What to bring to class

• Wear casual clothes with covered shoes
• A water bottle