Courses 2024

“We must all do theatre - to find out who we are and to discover who we could become.”
Augustus Boal

Do you have a passion for theatre?
Do you want to learn more about an aspect of it that you love?
Or are you ready for the challenge of trying something new?

All our courses are practical and collaborative, students will be encouraged to get involved, in a secure environment with experienced, supportive tutors and likeminded students.

For up to date availability on our courses please sign in to see the booking page. Please read the course descriptions carefully and pick one course to study for the week.

The Summer School begins on Saturday at 5pm with a school meeting led by the Summer School Director. After the evening meal you will meet your tutor(s) and fellow students in your first course session.

Details of materials, scripts, scores or equipment needed for their chosen course will be sent to students at the end of June.

Make sure you ‘like’ the NODA Theatre Summer School page on facebook and Instagram so you can keep up to date with any new information, tips from previous students and much more!

If you have a question, please contact us at summerschool@noda.org.uk

Tutor: Eva Sampson

Acting in Contemporary Theatre

This practical acting course will explore a breadth of plays in a vast range of styles and sensibilities. Inspired by a range of contemporary play texts from some of the best playwrights of the 21st Century. During the week you will: Develop a deeper understanding of how to meet the demands of performing...

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Tutor: Pamela Rudge

Acting through Song

This course will empower students to explore and develop a practical knowledge of the skills, techniques and approaches to acting through song. There will be the opportunity to work with a rich and wide range of musical theatre material in both solo and ensemble work throughout the course. During the...

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Tutor: Hayley Greggs

Adapting a Classic Novel for the Stage

A wonderful way of immersing a company or society in creativity and saving money on performance rights is to adapt a classic novel into a play. This approach creates work that will engage and delight an audience. During the week you will: learn tools and techniques to transform a novel...

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Tutor: Lu Herbert

Costume for Theatre

A practical and valuable course that focuses on imaginatively recycling and reimagining your society’s existing wardrobe to make original costumes for your productions. A great recipe to cut costs and protect the environment without compromising on the look of your production. In an exciting collaboration each costume student will partner...

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Tutor: Chris Tomlinson

Creating Accessible Theatre for All

A practical and enjoyable course, full of lively conversation with practical exploration. An opportunity to discover how to create a safe space for anyone to come and create successful and inclusive productions of any scale or shape. During the week you will: look at how choosing a show and casting...

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Tutor: Tri Cumming

Directing Musical Theatre

Working with a cast and company to bring characters, story and the world of musical theatre to life on stage is demanding and rewarding in equal measure. This course will provide you with a wealth of practical insights and tools to create memorable performances. For those who are looking to...

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Tutor: Marjory Watson

First Notes: Singing from the Beginning

For students who are looking to grow and develop their experience as a singer this is an empowering course to build confidence and unlock the singer within. Focusing on fundamental vocal technique, this course will help you build a singing toolbox which will allow you to explore songs with musicality...

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Tutor: Lynsey Brown

First Steps: Dance from the Start

If dance is always something you have wanted to try but not felt brave enough to have a go, this empowering course to build confidence and free the dancer within, is for you this year. During the week you will: consider how posture and placement can help and enhance movement ...

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Tutor: Jonny Dixon

How to Create Something from Nothing

Want to learn how to make imaginative, quirky, dynamic, meaningful and impactful performance from scratch? This is the course for you. During the week you will: discover ways to get work on its feet quickly and ‘learn by doing’. use a range of different styles and approaches (storytelling, physical theatre,...

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Tutor: Lynne Bustard / Sarah de Tute

MT Party People

The perfect opportunity for energetic performers who want to spend a week learning more about the practical skills of performance; integrating disciplines of singing, dance and movement. Using a smorgasbord of high energy, celebratory musical theatre songs from earlier classics to present day gems. This practical course will stretch and develop...

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Tutor: Grace Goulding

Physical Theatre

Physical theatre is one of the most eloquent genres of contemporary theatre and explores narrative, relationships and emotion in a way that often words fail to achieve. This practical course will allow you to dive into this exciting and revealing performance style and discover how to make theatre through physical expression. During the...

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Tutor: Jack Bennett / Jordan Langford

Rave From the Grave

Drawing inspiration from hit musicals Young Frankenstein, The Addams Family, Hadestown and Beetlejuice, students will embark on an immersive journey, honing their acting, singing and dancing skills under the guidance of a dynamic West End director/choreographer and MD. The course also features a day of special effects makeup, enriching students’...

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Tutor: Alex Marker

Setting the Scene

A practical and fun course for everyone who would like to develop their knowledge and skills in creative set design for performance whether that be for theatre, site specific, plays, musicals, operas or immersive performance. During the course you will work with performance texts to develop your creative and practical...

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Tutor: Anna McSweeney

Shakespeare's Contemporaries: Body, Mind, and Soul

A course for actors and directors who want to dive into the extraordinarily rich theatrical universe that surrounded Shakespeare in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. A time when ideas about the human body, mind, and soul were shifting dramatically - those shifts infused the dramatic action as captured...

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Courses 2024

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