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Department of Theatre Evening Classes
The Department of Theatre offers a range of evening classes in Adult Acting and Youth Theatre. Details for the individual classes below.
Further Information:
- Please note that all courses will run subject to sufficient interest. Applicants will be informed accordingly as soon as possible. If you have additional needs in order to attend classes, please contact theatre@ucc.ie
- By making the payment for the evening classes, you are consenting to the collection of images, video materials, and sound files of your work in class and the subsequent use of these in communication, social media, and marketing for the Department of Theatre, UCC. If you do not consent, please do not proceed with payment.
Introduction to Adult Acting (18+)
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Introduction to Adult Acting (18+)
Duration: 6 weeks - Classes run on Tuesdays from September – December (Semester 1) and on Mondays from January to June (Semester 2) depending on interest and availability.
Location: In person in the Theatre Lab or Theatre Workshop
Time: 19:00pm – 21:00pm
Price: €130.00 for UCC Staff/Students, recipients of Social Welfare Payments, Over 65’s. €150 for all other applicants.
Introduction to Adult Acting (18+). If you have a hunch about acting this is the class for you. Discover the joy of playing with voice, gesture and emotion to create character pictures.
Discover the power of performance and learn to allow yourself to “be” fully in a public setting. Learn to engage with dramatic text and discover ways of bringing it to life on stage.
Learn to have fun and experience excitement by exploring what is possible within the experience of yourself. The class is suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
Bio
Facilitator: Jack Healy
Jack Healy has worked in theatre for over thirty years mainly as an actor and playwright. He has written scripts for the Everyman Palace, and RTE Radio. Most recently, under commission from Cork County Council, he wrote a stage adaptation of the novel, Glenanaar by Cannon Sheehan to celebrate the centenary of his death. Recently he played the part of Michael in the highly acclaimed production of Dancing at Lughnasa at the Everyman Palace, Cork.
Registration and payment here -
Youth Theatre (14+)
Duration: Tuedays during Semester
Location: In person in the Theatre Lab
Time: 19:00pm – 20:30pm
Price: €120 per semester.
UCC Youth Theatre offers an introduction to theatre skills for young people aged 14+. Over 6 weeks of theatre-based workshops participants will gain an understanding of basic theatre techniques, developing creatively and working both independently and part of an ensemble. During workshops participants will experience different approaches to devising theatre - including physical theatre, improvisation, writing and character development. UCC Youth Theatre is open to any young person with an interest in building theatre skills, developing creatively and meeting like-minded people.
In Novembers 2023, members will take part in Playshare a national new play perfromance event hosted by Youth Theatre Ireland.
Bio
Maxine Acton works as a freelance creative artist facilitator with a particular interest in the facilitation of groups in the creation of new work and Applied Theatre (teaching through theatre) practices. She has worked with many organisations including Graffiti Theatre Company and Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre in Cork and Youth Theatre Ireland, Dublin.
Maxine also lectures in the Department of Theatre in UCC. She is a graduate of the same department, with a BA in Theatre Studies and a Masters by Research in feminist dramaturgies. She is currently pursuing a Creative Practice PhD for her research on Drama for Medicine.
If you have any questions about UCC Youth Theatre, please contact Fionn Woodhouse on youththeatre@ucc.ie or see our page here.
Registration link here - https://forms.gle/Y9e8pGcCd3rMPNGC7
Adult Acting Advanced (18+)
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Adult Acting Advanced (18+)
Duration: 6 weeks
Location: Theatre Lab
Time: 19:00pm – 21:00pm
Price: €130.00 for UCC Staff/Students, recipients of Social Welfare Payments, Over 65’s. €150 for all other applicants.
Adult Acting Advanced (18+).
If you already have some experience of acting this is the workshop for you. Return to and clarify the sense of joy and empowerment that the activity brings.
Come along and learn to develop on a practice that has already yielded results in terms of creative rewards
Learn to realise the actors art as a creative practice in its own right and to use the fabric of yourself and your own experience to pursue creative outcomes in theatre.
Bio
Facilitator: Jack Healy
Jack Healy has worked in theatre for over thirty years mainly as an actor and playwright. He has written scripts for the Everyman Palace, and RTE Radio. Most recently, under commission from Cork County Council, he wrote a stage adaptation of the novel, Glenanaar by Cannon Sheehan to celebrate the centenary of his death. Recently he played the part of Michael in the highly acclaimed production of Dancing at Lughnasa at the Everyman Palace, Cork.
Registration and payment here -
Adult Acting toward Performance
Starts: Mondays - Sept 2025 - Booking - https://uccshop.ie/shop/adult-acting-towards-performance/