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We Are Delighted to Offer Our Year-Long Post-Graduate Intensive Programme for Acting, Including a Director’S Route, in the Heart of London’S Soho District We are delighted to offer our year-long Post-Graduate Intensive Programme for Acting, including a Director’s route, in the heart of London’s Soho district. The course is equivalent to the MA offered by many of the major Drama Schools in the UK. However it is in many ways even more intensive and is taught by some of the best acting, movement and voice specialists in the country, while costing only £8,500 [2012-13] – an incredibly advantageous rate, and considerably more affordable than the other institutions. We are able to do this because we are an independent organisation. At the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting (Formerly the Caravanserai Acting Studio), our acting philosophy is broadly in line with that of the original Drama Centre London under Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Rueven Adiv, that has produced some of the most exciting actors in the UK today – Colin Firth, Paul Bettany, Anne Marie Duff, Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy to name but a few. At the heart of the three-term course is the acting class, led by Giles Foreman. Here participants learn the main tenets of Methodological technique, influenced by the work of Uta Hagen, Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. Students also have two classes per week in which they are introduced to the Laban/Jungian transformative technique of Yat Malmgren that has distinguished the Drama Centre worldwide as a centre for acting excellence, and is taught by the man who launched the Drama Centre, Christopher Fettes, and by Giles Foreman. Participants have regular Meisner-based sessions, Voice-work and On-Camera Classes. Movement classes are led by the renowned Liana Nyquist. Rehearsal scenes and showings are built around both classical repertoire, and contemporary film and theatre texts. At the end of the year there is a public performance opportunity and an industry showcase. We also offer a DIRECTOR’S route – please email for full information. The course involves around 30 hours of regular classes and rehearsal exercises/sessions per week over a 12-week period each term: 3 terms per year. Fees are payable termly, or by monthly direct debit. Auditions, for a maximum of 14 places, are held at our Dean Street base, Studio Soho – please contact us for next dates. Course Entry Requirements: An Honours degree in acting / drama / directing / theatre studies / dance, or similar relevant discipline OR a Diploma from a recognised professional drama / dance / performance school OR an Honours degree in a discipline other than those listed above, plus performance-related experience OR at least three years professional experience as a performer. Please email for further information, or an application form to: [email protected] ‘’Giles Foreman Centre for Acting is pleased to be able to offer a real, practical alternative to an MA course at a conventional drama school. We are proud to offer some of the best acting, voice and movement specialists in the country in a bespoke environment, which is far more tailored to the individual - we like to keep the numbers in each group small.” Giles Foreman Giles is one of the leading acting coaches in the UK and a specialist in the Methodological approach to acting. He has worked as an acting coach at the Drama Centre, London; Deutsche Schauspiel Akademie, and The Forum for Filmschauspiel, Berlin; Creative Education, The City Lit, NODA, the Pula International Festival of Theatre, Croatia; the International Festival of Making Theater, Athens; Trixster in Paris, Algeria’s National Theatre, and for Switzerland's FOCAL. He has run workshops all over the world and coached on the Swiss movie Swiss Grounding, a German film Sunny Hill,a German/French/Swiss/Austrian co-production – Sennentuntschi, directed by Michael Steiner, Pedaleur du Charme, by Daniel von Aarburg, Romeos – a hit at the recent Berlin Film Festival, directed by Sabina Bernardi, and Ruhestoerung directed by Robert Ralston. He also worked on the video for the Kooks single Sway. He coaches many actors from all over Europe privately, preparing them for a range of Film and T.V roles: most recently, Daniel Sharman on Immortals and some of the X Men. He was a founder member of EuroCircles, a company created to promote pan–European cultural exchange, and has produced a variety of pieces from around Europe notably Lorca’s In Five Years Time, directed by the Spanish director Marta Momblant-Ribas (Critics Choice – Time Out and The Guardian), and an installation/performance event The Krankenhaus from Berlin. He worked with Visiting Arts (British Council) and the Gate to bring Tbilisi’s Basement Theatre to the Gate’s East Meets West season. Giles Foreman trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, London under the renowned Christopher Fettes, Yat Malmgren and Reuven Adiv; an academy that produced a host of Internationally celebrated actors including Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan, Anne Marie Duff, Paul Bettany, Michael Fassbender, Geraldine James, Tom Hardy and many others. Theatre credits include; Double Tongue (Border Crossings), Don Quixote (Gate Theatre), The Island (Eurocircles Tour – Georgia, Germany), A Language of Love (GIFT Festival, BAC), Shivah (Royal National Theatre), An Ideal Husband (Peter Hall Company – Haymarket Theatre, Merlin, The Broken Heart (Arts Threshold), Aubrey Beardsley in Beardsley (Stage One) and Boffi in Pirandello’s As You Desire Me (New End). T.V credits include Bonekickers, Warwalks, The Bill and 100 per cent and his film work includes Trigger Tiger, Napanee, The Cave, Summer Suite, Red Wolf and The Changeling. His directing work includes: Richard III (Courtyard Theatre), Macbeth and The Other Side of the Wall (Tristan Bates Theatre), Hilda by Marie Ndiaye (Pentameters Theatre and the Edinburgh Festival for the Caravanserai), The Tempest (Central School of Speech and Drama), Dr Faustus (The Caravanserai at the Bridewell Theatre), Trenches (Pentameters). He co-wrote and directed Kicking Oscar’s Corpse, Joan of Arc, The Mayor of Zalamea, Britannicus, A Month in the Country, Six Characters in Search of an Author, As You Like It (Drama Centre, London), Party Time (Landor Theatre), The Suspicious Truth by Juan Ruiz de Alarcon (Garage Theatre) and Armenia – A Thousand Branches (Hellenic Centre). He is the UK representative for the Sahara Film Festival – FISAHARA. In 2005 he founded Caravanserai Productions and Acting Studio alongside a group of advanced students and is the current Director. The Studio was renamed the Giles Foreman Centre for Acting and moved to London’s Soho district in January 2012 – right in the heart of the city and at the centre of the UK Film/Media industry. Liana Nyquist Liana studied at the Drama Centre and then was the assistant to the founder of the Drama Centre, Dr Yat Malmgren in the Laban analysis of character movement. Liana studied classical ballet at the Royal Academy in Sweden and the Martha Graham technique at the London School of Contemporary Dance (The Place). She is a vanguard figure of physical theatre, having performed with various dance theatre/physical theatres companies all over Europe. She has lived in Brazil, working for the British Council, universities of Sao Paulo and Campinhas and performing with Brazil’s leading dance company Cisne Negro. She gives workshops in movement and analysis of movement all over Europe and beyond. (Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Brazil, Russia, Israel etc) As a Movement Director in the theatre she has extensive experience; working with numerous directors in a varied repertoire, classic, contemporary, farce and beyond. As a movement specialist she coaches actors for TV and films; recently, Sennentuntchi Kontra Production, Zurich, 2008-09, Pedaleur de Charme Maigimax Production, Zurich, 2009 Clash of the Titans 2009. Liana is a lecturer at CSM, College of Arts and Design, University of the Arts. She lectures across the college’s MA and BA courses. She is Head of Movement at the Drama Centre. Christopher Fettes Christopher Fettes is one of the great theatre and actor pedagogues of the UK, and in fact world theatre and cinema industry. He started as an actor working with the legendary East London Theatre Company - Theatre Workshop under Joan Littlewood. He went on to join the ensemble at the Royal Court theatre in London during its heyday in the fifties with George Divine and Tony Richardson. After meeting Yat Malmgren, with whom he shared a partnership spanning nearly fifty years, Christopher developed a career both as a teacher and theatre director of some renown; he directed a number of famous productions - notably his seminal interpretation of Marlowe‘s Dr Faustus and Schniztler‘s The Lonely Road with two of his acting students, Anthony Hopkins and Colin Firth. Christopher introduced the work of Calderon de la Barca to the British stage, and the work of the Austrian dramatist Thomas Bernhard. Christopher's great contribution came with his joint founding with Yat Malmgren in 1963 of the Drama Centre London; an acting conservatoire that was literally to change the face of training in the UK and around the world. He introduced the Method to the UK, initially by inviting the great UK method actor Harold Lang to teach at the centre. He subsequently invited Uta Hagen‘s protege Doreen Cannon to head the acting department. Later an assistant of Lee Strasberg, Reuven Adiv was to take over the department. Christopher's great innovation was to combine the American developments of Stanislavski, with the great European Classical tradition and with the Laban Jungian system of Character Analysis as developed by Yat Malmgren. Initally viewed as a dissident organisation by the British acting world, the school kept on turning out notable actors. There is a large body of alumni who owe their training to Yat and Christopher - these include Anthony Hopkins, Sean Connery, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, Michael Fassbender, Paul Bettany, Tom Hardy, Anne Marie Duff, Geraldine James, Francis de la Tour, Tara Fitzgerald and Helen McRory among many others.
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