Acting Through Song

Take a deep and detailed dive into all the corners of the Acting Through Song toolkit. Too often to taken for granted and misapplied, this rich and complex actor’s challenge deserves fulsome and rigorous attention.

This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of Acting Through Song, offering the chance to build your repertoire and skill level with in-class coaching sessions.

Course Content

Rehearse and develop songs for both performative and audition situation.
Rigorously explore form, function and purpose of song within theatre.
Investigate the rich, exciting relationship between text and music.
Unpack and identify practical understanding of style, structure and delivery.
Analyse and experiment with the bridging of text and song.
Build a practical toolkit of technique, exercise and understanding in the rehearsal of material.
Practically explore the intrinsic crossover between sung text and poetic forms.
Probe and embrace the difference and distance between audition and performance practice.

Course Dates

Monday 9 October - Wednesday 29 November

8 weeks, 16 sessions (Mondays and Wednesdays), 7pm - 9:30pm | Book your place

Booking Information

Our courses are available on a first come, first served basis in order of payment.

To secure a place, please take the following steps:

Read through our Terms and Conditions before booking
Click on ‘Book your place’ above. Please make sure you are booking for the correct course and option (i.e. Mon/Wed or Tue/Thu if more than one option is available)
Click ‘Select’ and follow the steps through to the completion of booking
If your preferred dates are sold out, you can click ‘Join Waiting List’ and we will let you know if a place becomes available

This course is ideally suited to those with some previous actor training or experience.

Days	Various. The course consists of 16 sessions in total and is delivered twice a week for 8 weeks.
Times	All times listed are either GMT or GMT +1 (depending on the time of year).
Age	The minimum age is 18 on the first day of the course. There is no upper age limit.
Max. class size	16 students
Course Delivery	All of the Evening Courses take place onsite at our Swiss Cottage campus in London.
International students	We welcome International Students to our courses, however please ensure you are on the correct visa. As our Evening Courses are classed as part-time, non-accredited short courses they are not eligible for a Tier 4 Student Visa however you may be eligible for a Short Term Study Visa.
Language requirements	Applicants must be confident speaking and reading English to a conversational level (IELTS score of 7.0 or equivalent). You may be expected to read texts/scripts that have advanced vocabulary.
Attendance	Due to the structure and the collaborative nature of the courses, full attendance is requested.
Refunds	We are able to offer a full refund up until 14 days before the course begins. After this, the course will become fully non-refundable.
Cancellations	Central reserves the right to cancel this course if we do not meet the minimum number of participants. In this instance, a full refund will be made to you. We are unable to refund any other costs you may have incurred.

What our students say...

“Rohan pushed me to be the best version of myself I could be. He genuinely cares about each and every one of his students and champions their own unique traits and qualities.”

Nadia

“Rohan’s approach to actor training is meticulously detailed. His teachings are functional and easy to apply to any material an actor may need including sung and classical text.”

Ben

Course tutor

Rohan Tickell

An alumnus of Royal Central, Rohan most recently headed the Acting Department on ArtsEd’s flagship Musical Theatre course. Prior to that he taught at many of the UK’s top drama schools in tandem with a thriving acting career in theatres across the West End, Europe, Asia and his homeland of Australia playing lead roles in a raft of major Musical Theatre productions.