ppa - performance preparation academy

One Year Acting Intensive Course

The One Year Acting Intensive Course is a vocational and practical program aimed primarily at students who are committed to pursuing and developing a career in the performing arts. The course is designed to introduce and explore a range of methods and techniques that will free the actor's imagination, voice and physicality. The course prepares students for further training on accredited acting courses at nationally recognised drama schools.

Focussing on classical and contemporary texts students will work with professionally trained tutors within a creative environment whilst observing industry codes of conduct and rehearsal etiquette. On completion of the course students will have established and developed the beginnings of a psychological and physical acting technique that is relevant to a wide range of texts, genres and performance styles.

"I have been associated with PPA for several years now and the standard is excellent. The students are motivated, enthusiastic and above all talented. The training PPA gives them will ensure they have a head start in auditioning for Drama Schools. I look forward to seeing their students at our auditions for many years to come!"

"PPA's mission seems simply to be to equip would-be actors with the basic, and sometimes sophisticated, skills that will demonstrate their intrinsic natural flair at auditions and in that they are providing interesting raw material for us to choose from, and candidates with a high level of both proficiency and professional practice. PPA graduates must find drama school auditions less daunting than others do and inevitably will showcase themselves more effectively than most"


Adrian Hall
Director
Academy of Live & Recorded Arts