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Facilities
Studying at Central gives you access to a wide range of high calibre, industry standard facilities, which are available to students of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and short courses.
Main Building
Central’s main building is home to the 234-seat proscenium arch Embassy Theatre, three rehearsal rooms, a café bar and canteen, 9 practice rooms equipped with pianos and sound proofing, and a professional standard recording room with attached studio.
North Block
The eagerly awaited £16.7 million development on our Swiss Cottage campus includes a state-of the art building comprising a studio dedicated to film, media and digital work and 5 new high ceiling rehearsal spaces.
Embassy Extension
The Embassy Extension includes the black box Webber Douglas performance space which has capacity to seat up to 100 people, as well as multiple studios such as the 80-seat New Studio and a wide variety of technical theatre workshops for design, props, puppetry, two costume workshops including a dye room, a large costume store, scenic design workshops, sound and video editing suites, and technical drawing studios.
East Block
The East Block accommodates various academic and administrative offices, the I.T. department, the largest specialist library of its kind in London and a very popular student bar!
The Norman Collins Building
The Norman Collins Building includes various academic offices alongside stage management and technical and production management offices for students and a lecture space.
West Block
The West Block contains two black box performance spaces with 70-80 person capacities, two large and eight smaller rehearsal rooms, all with sprung floors, sound-proofing and PA systems.
University of London
In addition to the campus facilities, Central students have access to a range of University of London facilities, including the University of London Students’ Union and Senate House Library, containing three million books.
Off-campus Spaces
We will occasionally schedule classes, rehearsals and productions in offsite locations; these locations have been carefully chosen and will have the necessary specs to allow for appropriate use by students. These include spaces at St Peter’s Church (a five minute walk from Central).
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At Central we put your future career at the heart of everything we do, and when you leave, you’ll be a specialist in your subject – with the preparation you’ll need to get work in a fast-moving performing arts industry.
Central’s Embassy campus is set in Hampstead, a quiet, leafy corner of London – yet only 10 minutes by tube from the bright lights of central London’s West End theatre district.
Central’s new North Block open its doors.
A benefit of many undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Central is the opportunity to participate in workplace learning by undertaking an industry placement. All our courses have close connections with theatre, performance, film, television or other relevant professional contexts.
The Technical & Production Department (T&P) supports learning through practical advice and training, to help students realise projects and productions across all of Central’s courses.
