Ictheatre 2021/22 Prospectus

PROSPECTUS 21 22 Contents —— Our Values 4 Welcome 7 From Chaos Comes Creativity by Conor Baum 8 Why ICTheatre? 10 Our Connections Musical Theatre Patron 15 Acting 21st Century Patron 17 Hip Hop Artistry Patron 19 Hip Hop Artistry Patron 21 Professional & Personal Development 22 Partnerships 26 Lecturers/Industry 29 The ICTheatre Graduate 31 Masterclasses 32 Choose Your Campus Brighton 35 Manchester 41 Our Training Professionals 48 Meet Your Lecturers 52 BA (Hons) Courses BA (Hons) Performing Arts 59 BA (Hons) Production Management and Entrepreneurship 73 Auditions and Workshops 74 Academic Excellence 77 How to Apply Making Your Application 80 Fees, Finance and Loans 80 Accommodation 83 Contact Information 84 Purpose Inspire the next generation of industry professionals through the creation of inclusive and creative learning environments, that remove barriers, and create opportunities for equal participation in the creative industries. Vision Grow Together We work together as one community, Provide the highest standard of industry-led education built on a foundation of collaboration, inclusivity and an united by our collective ideals, passions and values entrepreneurial spirit; preparing our students for a sustainable career within the creative industries. to shape our shared world for the better. Our Values —— Believe in Everyone Own It We embrace and celebrate diversity to create We encourage every individual to take responsibility a culture of belonging and respect, for their communities and work together holding each other up and creating space to be a force for positive change. for every voice to be heard. Challenge the Norm Do the Right Thing We are bold and ambitious in our pursuit of new ways We act with courage and integrity in all areas of working that can advance our communities of our organisation to protect our communities, in positive and inspiring ways. our business and the environment. Welcome —— I feel privileged to be a part of ICTheatre. Not only To be a part of ICTheatre is to be a part of a movement, is it a privilege, but it is also a responsibility. Anyone and one that I am so proud to be a part of here in who tells you that training to become a performer is Manchester. We at ICTheatre are bringing unique, an easy option does not understand what we do, or contemporary training to the North of England that will its importance. The creative arts are fundamental mark the first steps of your journey into the theatre and to society’s survival. Now, even more than ever, television industry – and life in the creative arts. people need to find ways of expressing themselves, of understanding the world, of laughing, crying and Training with us will see you meet like-minded people, thinking. By joining ICTheatre, you’re on a journey step outside of your comfort zone and step into the towards a career that has the potential to enable ICTheatre family – with actors, singers, rappers, dancers all of this. and creative people all around you. If I were to offer any advice preparing for your studies, it would be to It’s our job to guide and nurture you by providing the ready yourself to open your mind and embrace new highest standard of training, delivered by experienced experiences. practitioners. We’re also facilitators, expanding creative thinking, encouraging entrepreneurship Being open to new things and saying yes can lead to and building your confidence. That’s why it’s both fresh experiences, friendships, industry connections, a privilege and a responsibility. and a more enriching start to your career. The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once said: “every great You have a responsibility in this journey. You’re the journey begins with the first step” – a maxim that innovators, navigating a new artistic and career resonates with the idea that great things begin in landscape; one that requires an incredible range of small, often humble ways. skills, knowledge and courageous vision. You must develop your own artistic identities. What makes you You and all your peers are the future of the theatre, different? What do you want to say? You are at the television and film industry. It is my responsibility to centre of everything at ICTheatre. I am so happy to ensure that you have the tools to be that future, and be riding alongside you. of course, have a lot of fun along the way. Thomasina Unsworth Paul Ryder College Principal – Brighton College Principal – Manchester ICTheatre Prospectus 2021/22 6 ICTheatre Prospectus 2021/22 7 From Chaos Comes Creativity by Conor Baum —— Conor Baum, FE Head of landscape of the British stage also and achievements of Black or We, as a community, and you, as Curriculum and Assessment at changed as Black Britons began Asian practitioners. British theatre its newest entrants, are granted ICTheatre explores the impact to demand space for their stories continues to grapple with how it a unique opportunity to fashion that turbulent times have had upon the stage as well. In 1948, the can tackle organisational biases, the landscape of an industry to on theatre and the performance Negro Theatre Company (Britain’s institutional racism and the better reflect the modern world – space throughout history – and first only Black company) was underrepresentation of non-white to implement systems of fairness how these moments often create founded by a group of Black British voices, stories and bodies upon and change, regardless of race, a chance for innovation, change understudies as a way to produce the stage. gender expression, sexuality and and creativity. work by and about the Black (dis)ability; to champion the voices experience and to showcase their We, as artists, and you, as of Britain in all their diversity and At the end of July 2020, musical skills on tour. Over the following prospective students, are actually difference; to create performances theatre fans took to Twitter in decade, Black British actors and in an incredibly privileged and and companies that can exist in shock and concern as images crucible within which innovation particular focus on mortality and performers, spearheaded by Pearl unique position. You are stepping every corner of the country, so that of the iconic chandelier from and change for the better are legacy – what do we leave in the Connor-Mogotsi and the agency into a potential career within an every child and adult, regardless Phantom of the Opera emerged forged. Within the context of the world when we are gone? she established (the Edric Connor industry that is at the nexus point of financial circumstance, have the online. It had been whisked away events listed above, we are able Agency) campaigned for better pay of great change. The examples opportunity to experience the joy from its former place of glory at to see how British theatre has Another parallel between times and Equity membership for Black above demonstrate just two of the of live theatre. You have the chance the Her Majesty’s Theatre and grown, shifted, diversified and of upheaval can be drawn actors. By 1950, playwrights such ways in which social upheaval has to create a theatre that truly locked away inside a storage unit. produced some of its greatest between then and now. Within as Errol John, Barry Reckord and galvanised a lasting impact on the reflects the world in which we live For 34 years, the Lloyd Webber works and artists in the wake the last few months, the shocking Wole Soyinka were having their landscape of British theatre. They – which both allows us the freedom musical has remained a focal point of domestic troubles. scenes of police brutality and work produced by the Royal also demonstrate that change is of escape and entertainment – as of London’s glittering West End; racial discrimination against the Court Theatre. ongoing – and necessary. Great well as staring the shortcomings of a production that has remained If the accepted chronology is to Black communities in the US change requires great vision, our society in the face. untarnished and unchanged. The be believed, William Shakespeare and UK have galvanised a huge Despite this huge creative artistry and insight – it requires a COVID-19 pandemic, it seemed, wrote 15 of his plays amidst the outpouring of support, solidarity outpouring generated by migrant collaborative effort and a forthright You are faced with two questions had come to claim its next victim. wake of the Plague outbreak, and action and a re-emergence of creatives after 1948 (and probably sense of creativity to manifest the right now: what makes truly accounting nearly 30% of the the Black Lives Matter Movement. before that also), the way we teach transformations required. More contemporary theatre? Will I be The last time large theatres in canon. It is interesting to note that As a consequence, the theatre the history of theatre in the UK than anything, it requires courage. part of the movement to make city centres closed in this manner many of his ‘problem plays’ are community has looked inwards to rarely recognises the advances it happen? was during the threat of air-raids generated at this time – perhaps examine what further can be done during the onset and outbreak his world and audience needed to facilitate greater integration, of the Second World War. Even that complex interplay of comedy facilitation and representation of during the interwar outbreak and tragedy that makes works like Black (as well as Asian and other of Spanish Influenza, theatres Cymbeline, All’s Well That Ends Minority Ethnic) voices, stories and remained largely open. In the time Well, The Winter’s Tale and Pericles presence within a contemporary between 1603 and 1613, the Privy enigmatic and hard to place to theatrical landscape.

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