Acting Evening Courses

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Discover our acting evening courses

Are you ready to pursue your passion for acting? Discover our evening short courses taking place at Guildhall School, from 19 January 2027. Open to all ages and experience levels. No auditions required. 

Acting for Camera Level 2

Acting for Camera: Level 2

This new eight-week evening course is designed to develop your skills and confidence and build on your existing toolkit in acting for film and TV.

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Acting Shakespeare

This six-week evening course, taught by one of the UK's leading classical actors, will give you the tools you need to approach and perform Shakespeare with confidence.

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Comedy and Performance

This six-week evening course will explore comedy and humour for performers. Participants will learn practical techniques to successfully draw out the comedic elements of their performance.

Creating Movement: A Studio Lab

Creating Movement: A Studio Lab

This new practical six-week evening course offers a deeper exploration of how movement is made. Through improvisation, image and text, you'll generate physical material and shape it into short performance studies using rhythm, weight, space and relationship.

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Creative Writing for Live Performance

This eight-week course is for any writer who has made a start on an idea (from a synopsis to a first draft) and the focus will be on developing and redrafting this piece. 

Acting Practice Level 1

Introduction to Acting Practice: Level 1

This six-week evening course for beginners, will explore what "good acting" might be and how actors can achieve it.

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Introduction to Acting Practice: Level 2

This evening course will help you to further develop your work and grow as an actor.

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Stage Combat: Introduction to Fundamentals

In this new six-week evening course, you’ll explore the principles behind using violence and conflict safely within storytelling, and learn the essential techniques of both armed and unarmed combat for performance.