Monday 2 July 2012

Something to do in the holidays?







At first it was just a sporadic suggestion between two mates. “Why don’t we do speech and drama? It’ll be a laugh.” However this quickly turned into a reality and within 10 days George Johnson and I sat our grade 7 exam. Personally as an English A level student, I was already familiar with the works of Shakespeare, but only through the analysis of his written work. However speech and drama offered me the opportunity to appreciate his work in performance. This heightened my understanding of the text, as I was taught how to truly capture the emotion he wished to convey through his words.

I believe the learning process augmented our confidence as we had to perform our duologues for an examiner, having had no prior acting experience.. In particular, becoming accustomed to improvisation truly forced us to go out of our own comfort zones.

Finally, although the process demanded much of us, it prevailed to be an exhilarating experience. It permitted us to truly appreciate the requirements of tackling an acting role, something I knew very little about beforehand.

But enough about us…

Rosalind Johnson and Louise Merrifield are fantastic teachers (at least that’s what they told me to include in this). Under their guidance we quickly got to grips with the requirements of our duologues and the essential performing techniques required to really bring the pieces alive.

But if that doesn’t concoct an image enticing enough, or provoke your mouth to drool then read my money-back guarantee below:

If your child happens to be part of the 95% of society whose poor pronunciation has manifested to the point where they forget to pronounce their t’s : then send them here and they will be rescued.

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