Theatre Studies: Performance / Advanced Performance

Level 5/6 NQAI
Qualifications Framework
FETAC Code: EPATP

The two year full-time course is designed to provide prospective students, interested in a career in the Performing Arts, with a professional training in a variety of performance skills. Students who have reached the required standard on the two year course or who have equivalent accreditation may apply for the one year Advanced Performance Course, where they will work towards the Trinity Guildhall (ATCL) Diplomas and selected FETAC Level 6 modules.

Description

The Theatre performance course at lnchicore College is exciting and challenging. It is the longest established course of its kind in Ireland and has kept pace with developments in, and the changing demands of, the Performing Arts. This is a full time course which offers the student a high level of training in all the disciplines needed for performance. As a result it is highly regarded within Professional Theatre.

The experienced tutors are also theatre professionals who bring their knowledge and expertise to the modules they teach. Students also have the benefit of guest specialists and directors who are invited to provide further workshop experience.

Along with the practical skills offered, the course provides FETAC accreditation to levels 5 and 6 along with the awarding of the Trinity (London) Grade 8 acting Certificate, Diploma in Solo Acting, and Diploma in Musical Theatre. Many of our students have progressed to third level Higher Diploma and MA courses in colleges such as Central School of Drama London, UCD and Maynooth, as well as enjoying active careers in professional theatre.

We welcome applications from all Post-Leaving cert age groups, including Mature students.

The course syllabus covers:

• Classical and Contemporary Theatre
• 20th Century British Theatre
• European Theatre - Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, Lorca, Brecht, Pirandello.
• American Drama - O’Neill, Williams, Miller and Shepard
• Commedia Dell’ Arte
• William Shakespeare
• Stanislavski
• Realism
• Expressionism
• Musical Theatre

All Students participate in a number of studio and main house productions.

First Year students work with a guest director on a devised show which includes music and movement. Second Year students perform a full length Shakespeare play. In Third Year a production is staged in a city centre venue, to which agents and casting directors are invited.

Since 1999 a number of second and third year students have travelled to Padua, Italy, to study the music, mask, and movement of Commedia Dell’ Arte.

The project is funded by the Leonardo Da Vinci programme.

Recent Productions include:

• The Stone - Dir Bairbre Ni Caoimh - The New Theatre
• Once A Catholic - Dir Mark Lambert - Smock Alley
• One for Sorrow & Bad Sunday - Dir Bairbre Ni Caoimh - The New Theatre
• The Grapes of Wrath - Dir Mark Lambert - Smock Alley
• A Midsummer Night's Dream - Dir Derek Chapman

Course Content

• Acting & Acting for Camera
• Movement
• Voice, Phonetics and Dialect
• Mime
• Improvisation
• Dance
• Text Analysis
• Mask
• Musical Theatre
• Theatre History
• Television/Video Performance Skills
• Stage Management
• Costume
• Directing
• Singing
• Music

Course content may be revised for educational or organisational reasons

Certification

Second Year:

• CDVEC Certificate
• FETAC Level 5
• Trinity Grade 8

Third Year:

• Trinity Diplomas - ATCL
• Selected Level 6 FETAC Modules

Entry Requirements

Applicants must be 17 years of age and be of Leaving Certificate or Leaving Certificate Applied standard. While previous performance experience is not essential, a proven interest in Theatre would be an advantage.

Admittance to these courses is by means of interview and audition. Details will be sent to applicants with notice of their audition times.

Course Director

Sharon O’Doherty

Course Tutors

Stephanie Elliot
Stephanie Courtney
Sorcha Dawson
Marian Lennon
Amanda Maguire
Paul Meade
Helen Montague
Leonore McDonagh
Sharon O’Doherty
Helena Walsh