Drama workshops are excellent if you want to do a future career in acting. You can either go to local ones, or you can go to national ones (these ones are held by agents or Saturday stage/drama school classes) Local ones you usually get the chance to perform at local theatres, but national ones don't, you have to attend sumer school over the summer if you want to perform with a national theatre, these can up a min of two weeks, a max of a month. These are for people aged as young 4 or 5 and up to the age of 18. Personally, if you want as much training and experience as possible, it is best to go to national ones cause local ones you tend to learn ...  Read the complete review

IMPORTANT: This review is NOT about drama workshops as such. It is about LAMDA which is a recognised qualification of acting exams. I could not find a category purely dedicated to the topic so I have posted it here as the nearest category I could find. I hope that you will find it useful. INTRODUCTION LAMDA stands for The London academy of Music and Dramatic Art. I discovered LAMDA when I attended a theatre college. In the LAMDA exams I took, it was for drama. This review is all about the drama side of LAMDA, about how the whole system works and how to dramatise a LAMDA piece. Thsi review does not deal with the music side of things. Partly because I ...  Read the complete review

From a very young age, I was always the little girl who wanted to be famous. Obviously (and unfortunately!), I wasn’t the only one who wanted a little bit of ‘Fame’ in my life. Undeterred (and naïve), I joined the Carol Godby Theatre Workshop (then known as Whitefield Workshop) in Bury, Manchester. I was nine years old, and I just wanted a bit of fun, and wanted to make some new friends. Of course, deep down there was still the little voice shouting ‘I wanna be famous!!’. Be it singing, dancing or acting, I just wanted to be known. However, I did have a fair bit of talent too: I’d always enjoyed singing along to Kylie and Jason, ...  Read the complete review

This category could have been created for me. From the age of 14 I was involved in the youth theatre and I was in several productions. I went on to do GCSE Drama and Theatre Studies A Level. In my year out I joined a theatre company called RAGE and starred in a production of Shakers by John Godber (an excellent play!) As part of all this Thespian stuff I did, there were many workshops put on. At the youth theatre, which was held at the Crescent Theatre in Birmingham, we had workshops occasionally, put on by visiting companies. When we were putting on "The Pirates of Penzance" we had a voice workshop. Now the principal actors all had to sing ...  Read the complete review

Drama classes are too often dismissed as messing around. I took G.C.S.E drama and it was full of people who simply wanted an easy way out. The benefits of Drama workshops are, however, enormous. I am of the opinion that particpating in such workshops can be invaluable in terms of personal development and social integration and should not be dissmissed as simply 'messing about'. Firstly, let me give you a little background about my experiences of directing drama workshops and using drama as a means of facilitationg pesonal development. Initially I assisted in teaching workshops at a small drama school. This experience led to my studying dama at ...  Read the complete review