Courses
We offer three options for international students:
The Irish Theater January Term
The Irish Theater Summer School
The Original Theater Project
Irish Theatre January Term
Designed for students who have previously taken drama courses, and now want to focus their craft through the intensive study of Irish drama. The course explores a unique approach to learning that combines the development of literary understanding with an exploration of the craft of acting. Final evening is a showcase of selected scenes from the various plays studied.
An extensive cultural program includes regular theatre visits, visits to the Book of Kells, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery, The Irish Writer's Museum, The James Joyce Centre, and regular traditional music sessions
Week 1: The initial work will focus, through improvisation and breath control, on locating and developing the presence of the actor. Lectures focused in the work of Samuel Beckett and Brian Friel.
Week 2: Practical acting classes. Lectures focused on the work of John Millington Synge and Sean O'Casey.
Week 3: Rehearse work on an Irish theatre scene for final showcase. Lectures on contemporary Irish playwrights: Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, Frank McGuinness, Billy Roche and Martin McDonagh.
Frequency: 5 days a week over 3 weeks. Weekends are free for travel
Location: Temple Bar
Dates: 09 January 2012 - 27 January 2012
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: Wednesday 7th December 2011
For fees information, please contact coordinator@gaietyschool.com
Irish Theatre Summer School
A set of practical acting workshops and seminars carefully designed to place the writers in both a theatrical and literary context, developing an understanding of the historical and literary background of selected texts from each writer. The theatrical essence of the work will be explored and performed. Final evening is a showcase of selected scenes from the various plays studied.
Cultural visits to Dublin Castle, the Chester Beatty Library, Trinity College, the Irish Writers Museum, Hugh Lane Gallery, the National Gallery, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, James Joyce Tower in Sandycove, Viking at St. Michan's church and evening theatre performances.
Week 1: Lectures focused on the Irish literary tradition and on contemporary Irish theatre. Acting classes focused on practical exploration of acting techniques and short scene studies, with emphasis on Samuel Beckett.
Week 2: Work and lectures focused on John Millington Synge, William Butler Yeats and George Bernard Shaw.
Week 3: Focused on the work of Sean O'Casey, will start preparing short scenes for presentation in the final week.
Week 4: Focused on contemporary Irish playwrights: Brian Friel, Marina Carr, Conor McPherson, and Martin McDonagh. Exploration of Irish films: ‘Michael Collins', ‘The Field', ‘The Snapper', ‘The Commitments' and ‘Playboy of the Western World'. Rehearsals and final showcase.
Frequency: 5 days a week over 4 weeks. Weekends are free for travel
Location: Temple Bar
Dates: 02 July 2012 - Friday 27 July 2012
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: Wednesday 30 May 2012
For fees information, please contact coordinator@gaietyschool.com
The Original Theatre Project
Join us for a unique journey to create a new and exciting one-hour theatre piece. The Original Theatre Project is a four-stage project that begins at your theatre department, is developed, rehearsed and performed in The Gaiety School of Acting. Finally, the play is brought back to your home country for presentation at your theatre department.
STAGE 1: Developing the starting points. At your theatre department. 1 week.
GSA theatre director and a writer will work with 12 (negotiable) participants on the development of a very broad range of starting points. The objective is to fire the imaginations of the participants to discover different ways of starting to develop an original theatre piece. A wide range of objects and images will be explored and it can also include the use of a departmental choreographer and a musician / composer.
STAGE 2: The writing begins. At your theatre department. 3 months.
All the images, ideas and starting points are brought back to Ireland and the writer and director begin the process of drawing from the starting points with a view to creating and original piece of theatre sourced in the experience of the intensive week long exploration.
STAGE 3: Rehearsals and Performance. Dublin. 3 weeks.
Intensive three-week rehearsal process, followed by a series of performances in a Dublin. Include regular theatre visits, a series of lectures on the Irish literary tradition, regular voice classes and a series of visits to see significant Dublin cultural landmarks. Accommodation in the Temple Bar House
STAGE FOUR: Performance. At your theatre department.
The original theatre project will return to your campus and will be performed there for a home audience.
Duration of the course: 4 months
Location: Theatre department and Dublin
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For fees information, please contact coordinator@gaietyschool.com
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