Audition Masterclass - January

Four Day Audition Masterclass

Course description
This is an intensive course for those considering auditioning for drama school and who wish to master audition technique and fully prepare their monologues.

Preparing for your Audition
Full preparation is key to combatting nerves, giving your best monologue and demonstrating your seriousness. This section of the course covers knowing who is going to be in the room and how that can be helpful, how to best position yourself in the space, making sure the chosen monologue is both suitable and showcases you, who to give your speech to, what to wear, how to be fully warmed up vocally and physically, how to best handle the chit-chat, and how to enter and how to exit.

Preparing Your Monologues
The majority of the course will focus on working the monologues and ensuring that you are armed for the audition with a fully polished contemporary and classical monologue. This work comprises an investigation of the text locating and playing all the intentions and beats, making sure the choices are clear and contribute to an honest and interesting interpretation, and that they maximise your particular skillsets. There are tips and exercises on how to make sure your monologue remains fresh and immediate and that you do not get stuck in learned delivery patterns. There is copious practice on how to take direction – how to really hear what is being asked of you and how to deliver it, should that arise. Character is addressed through an investigation of the text and given circumstances of the play as well as through the movement and voice workshops. For the classical monologue there is an examination of verse and rhythm to add understanding and enjoyment to the playing of the heightened language.

This will all be tailored to the individual within the group setting.

Workshops

There will be several group workshops. Voice will comprise an overview of this most vital of the actor’s tools and participants will leave knowing how to take care of their voice, how to warm up for an audition or performance, and the importance of this. There will also be a take-home sheet of exercises which can be practiced at home and used before an audition. Movement will largely comprise games and exercises designed to free the actor from inhibition and allow the body to be alert and receptive to any direction or spontaneity that the acting/audition/rehearsal process may throw up. There will also be a Relaxation workshop exploring ways to combat nerves to allow the actor be fully in the moment and have fun.

Mock Audition with Industry panel
At the end of the course we will run mock-audition sessions with an experienced panellist who, along with your tutor, will provide critical private feedback about your audition and your professional development.

Pre-requisites and preparation for course:
All participants must have a contemporary and classical monologue fully memorized for the first day of the course. If you don’t have one prepared this will seriously reduce your development during the week. Please note: classical monologues need to be in verse not prose.

The speech should be 3 minutes long.

Here are some guidelines to help you choose a suitable monologue.

The full course fee is payable as acceptance of an offer of a place on the course.

Any withdrawal before the course start date, irrespective of circumstances, will result in the forfeiture of the entire fee.

Please note, acceptance onto the course is at the discretion of The Lir Academy. If The Lir feels for whatever reason that a participant is not suitable for the course, he/she will not be accepted. All decisions are final and not subject to appeal.

Any refunds will be processed within 28 days of notice.