Beginner's Acting Level 3: The Story

Learn the art of performing a story with our acting courses in Sydney!

Sydney Community College is proud to present this acting course in partnership with Darlo Drama.

Improve your characterisation skills, become well-versed in establishing theatrical relationships, and build your confidence on stage by performing in front of an audience! This course will give you a fundamental understanding of the processes involved in staging a play, such as working as an ensemble, script analysis, props and costuming, and blocking. The main focus of this acting course is the final production: a series of excerpts from several different plays, performed to an audience of family, friends, and fellow students.

During this acting course, you should progress from performing a single scene to performing an entire play.

These classes will finally culminate in two weekend performances on Darlo Drama's Studio Theatre stage!

Learning outcomes

By the end of this acting course, you should be able to:

• Perform with clarity, energy and confidence
• Connect to multiple scene partners and build theatrical relationships
• Define and differentiate multiple characters
• Be more confident in performing in front of an audience
• Perform multiple characters and scenes on Darlo Drama’s Studio Theatre stage to an audience of family, friends and fellow students!

Course content

What will be covered in this acting course?

• Understanding how to use your body to convey a character's physicality, including posture, movement, and gesture.
• Developing a detailed and nuanced understanding of your character, including their backstory, motivations, and personality.
• Collaborating with other actors and understanding how to create a cohesive and believable performance as a group.
• Learning how to receive and incorporate feedback from directors and other members of the creative team.
• Analyzing scripts to uncover subtext and understand the underlying motivations of your character, and researching the historical and cultural context of the play or film.
• Understanding the technical aspects of stage movement, including blocking, stage positioning, and working with the set, lighting, and sound design.
• Using props and costume to enhance your character's physicality and stage presence.
• Creating believable and dynamic relationships with other characters, and playing multiple characters in a single production.
• Understanding how to convey subtext and maintain the through-line of a character's arc throughout a production.
• Learning how to use your voice and breath to enhance your performance, including proper vocal projection, articulation, and dialects.

Intended audience

Who is this acting course for?

This Beginner's Acting Class is ideal for any one who has

• completed Improvisation Classes for Beginners with this College 
• attended our Beginner's Acting Classes Level 2: The Scene
• 40 hours or more of previous acting learning
• has performed in a theatre scene.

Course venue

Darlo Drama

Level 1, 16-18 Oxford Square, Darlinghurst NSW 2010

Course materials

What to bring to class

• Wear casual clothes with covered shoes
• A water bottle

Additional Information

If you have no prior experience we recommend starting with Beginner's Acting Classes: Level One (The Monologue), followed by Beginner acting: Level Two (The Scene) and Beginner Acting: Level Three (The Story) which all require attendance at one class per week for three hours at the same time each week. These courses will help to build your skills and then you can participate in The Play, and Actors Lab.