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Adult Acting Toward Performance now OPEN

20 Aug 2024

Introduction to Adult Acting (18+) and Adult Acting toward Performance 

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Introduction to Adult Acting (18+)

Duration: 6 weeks on Tuesdays from Tues 1st Oct

Location: In person in the 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.

 

Adult Acting Toward Performance  

Starts: Mondays - Sept 2024

Duration: 12 weeks on Mondays

Location: In person in the Theatre Lab

Time: 19:00pm – 21:00pm 

Further developing on the Intro to Acting and Adult Acting Advanced courses, the Adult Acting towards Performance course explores with the group of participants the next steps in bringing dramatic text to life on stage. Through fun and practical experience, the group will find the right texts and formats that will lead towards a public performance.
 
This class is suitable for those with some experience ideally in the Intro and Advanced UCC Theatre Adult Acting classes.
 

Facilitated by 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. 

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Please contact the course organisers at theatre@ucc.ie if you have any other questions.

Department of Theatre

Roinn na hAmharclannaíochta

Muskerry Villas, Western Road, Cork City T12 AW97

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