Acting Classes at Darlo Drama: The Story

Learn Acting for Beginners (Level 3) with our acting & drama courses in Sydney!

Sydney Community College is proud to present the learn acting for beginers course in partnership with Darlo Drama, which will help you to play multiple characters, explore a range of scripts and extend your craft.

The main focus of The Story is the production of a series of excerpts from several plays performed to an audience of family, friends and fellow students and will give you a fundamental understanding and experience of the processes involved in staging plays, working as an ensemble and blocking & script analysis.

This acting course is a stepping stone from performing a scene to performing a whole play.

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

Learning outcomes

By the end of these acting classes, 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!

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

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

What to bring to class

• Casual clothes with covered shoes
• A water bottle