LAMDA
Welcome to the beginning of your journey in mastering the art of communicating text and story to an audience.
With six years as a LAMDA Examinations teacher and eight years as a Trinity Examinations facilitator, I bring extensive expertise in examination-based text and performance. My training includes voice, poetry, and Shakespeare under Patsy Rodenburg, Kate Godfrey, and Jeannette Nelson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, alongside work with leading practitioners such as Dame Janet Suzman, Kristin Linklater, Barbara Houseman, and Jane Boston across both modern and classical text study.
VERSE AND PROSE
We explore sonnets, poetry, and speeches to uncover rhythm, metre, and the distinction between prose and verse. You will develop vocal techniques to bring text alive, practise sight-reading with audience focus, and learn effective memorisation strategies. Together, we analyse and contextualise text, discover subtext, and build an awareness of how form and content connect to you intellectually and emotionally.
READING FOR PERFORMANCE
Students build interpretative skills, deepen their knowledge of literature and story structure, and learn to devise and present material with confidence. Training emphasises engaging audiences with thought and emotion, strengthening argument and summary skills, and refining sight-reading and breathing techniques to support effective performance.
SPEAKING IN PUBLIC
Students develop the core skills needed for effective public speaking and communication. Training focuses on shaping subject matter into clear, concise speeches, refining vocal delivery for different audiences and contexts, and using rhetoric and body language with confidence. We also work on sight-reading and breathing techniques to support strong, engaging presentations.
ACTING
Students explore text, subtext, and context to meet the demands of the playwright, learning to identify objectives, obstacles, and entrances to build a character’s past, present, and future in scene work. Training also covers punctuation, stress, and vocal techniques, alongside diction and movement, ensuring the body and voice respond expressively to shifting emotions.
DEVISING DRAMA
Students learn to create character, situation, and place from diverse themes and source material. Training develops physical, vocal, and improvisational skills to reflect style and period, while encouraging clear documentation of the creative process. Alongside this, knowledge of story structure and character development is strengthened.
SHAKESPEARE
Students explore how Shakespeare’s form and content work together, analysing language, sound, and imagery alongside figures of speech such as alliteration, antithesis, and puns. Training also covers iambic pentameter, rhyme, soliloquy, and caesura, building a deeper understanding of how structure and style shape meaning and performance.
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“Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
– Brenda Ueland
