The Laramie Project
A small photo gallery of one of ALRA’s latest productions can now be found on the ALRA website.
http://www.alra.co.uk/index.php/Stage-2011-12/the-laramie-project.html
ALRA South
RSSALRA:TV launched!
ALRA:TV is a unique venture for a drama school and together with ALRA Community will provide unrivalled access to information, show-reels, films, blogs, live interviews and workshops, student made soaps and much, much more!
ALRA:TV is also available on our website both as scheduled and on demand content.
This is a fabulous opportunity to showcase students work and provide unlimited and instant access to students work for all members of the profession from agents to casting directors to anyone else!
To watch ALRA:TV please follow this link :
Hello, I have just been on your main website and I am struggling to find when open days for 2013 entry would be, I don't know if I just can't find them or if the open days have yet to be announced? Do I need to book in advance for these?
Hi
Thank you so much for your request.
The open day dates have just been confirmed for the 13th and 27th of October and the 17th November.
These dates will be added to the website shortly.
ALRA Short Film Script Competition
ALRA produces high-quality, professional films with their 3rd year and Post Graduate actors, each year (see http://www.alra.co.uk/index.php/Productions/screen.html).We use industry professionals, who, in the past have consisted of BBC Director, John Dower, BBC Director and Producer, Peter Cregeen, and Rolie Luker- cameraman ‘The Bill’, ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway?’
This year, we are holding ALRA’s first Short Film Script Competition. We are looking for new, innovative writers to submit ten minute film scripts. All shortlisted films will be judged by a panel of experts – including professional screen writer, Brian Fillis and the TV director, Andy Hay.
The winners will get their film made by a professional director supported by a technical team. The finished films will be screened at a public viewing in a cinema in London and the North West. It will be streamed on the ALRA website and writers will receive a copy on DVD.
Deadline for submission of scripts is 1 May 2012
Winning scripts will be announced on 1 July 2012.
Submit scripts to scripts@alra.co.uk
Please make sure your name and contact details are on the front page.
Brief
Scripts must be –
- 10 minutes in length
- Have at least 6 or 7 main characters (you can use more as secondary characters, walk-ons etc)
- 3 of the characters, at least, must be female.
Subject matters you must choose from –
- Rehabilitation
- Speed dating
- Bereavement
- Relationship break up
- Alcoholism
- New term
Scripts can be any genre
Important things to think about-
Society
You will be writing for actors who are between the ages of 20 and 30 – therefore you will need to think of a society in which people of this age exist together realistically. On film you cannot have a young actor playing an older character. It is also unsatisfactory to just say that the characters are young – eg – a scene set in at GP – will look odd if the patient, receptionist and doctor are all the same age.
Locations
ALRA has access to a variety of locations – warehouse, office, cafe, open space, house/flat interiors. We cannot cope with too many locations in one script – or specialist locations.
Yellow Academy is back!
Yellow Academy is back and this time it’s bigger! Yellow Academy is a FREE intensive 2 week performance course led by theatre professionals. Are you a young British East Asian* (16+) who has always wanted to perform or write but never been to drama school? Considering a career in theatre, film and television? Then read on. Yellow Academy is for you. You will work with Kumiko Mendl, Artistic Director of Yellow Earth, to create and rehearse an exciting piece of site specific theatre. Classes in voice, movement, combat and acting for camera will be provided and you’ll get support from drama tutors. The performance will be presented on the final evening in and around the extraordinary gothic Royal Victoria Patriotic Building, the Academy of Live and Recorded Art’s London home. This year we are also looking for two new writers who will work with Clive Duncan, Co-Director of ALRA, to learn the basics of script writing and then develop the work devised by the acting students into a script. The course will be held in London for 2 weeks 16 – 26 July. Past Yellow Academy students are welcome to apply. If you are interested in applying to join as an actor or as a writer – Click here to download the application form We will be holding two workshop auditions for actors London – at ALRA South, Saturday 28th April 2- 5pm Manchester – at Zion Arts, Saturday 19th May 2 – 5pm Interviews with writers will be arranged individually. But hurry. There are only 16 places on the course so it’s highly competitive. If you are successful, we will then offer you a place on the Yellow Academy 2012 course which will be in London. For more information about last year’s course and to view a short film about the project, click here. *British East Asian descent includes: Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, North Korea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and their Diasporas.
Yellow Academy 2012
Apply now for this great opportunity!
Yellow Academy is presented by Yellow Earth & the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts
Candide
About the Show
Directed by Roman Stefanski When the ever optimistic Candide is thrown from his privileged home, disgraced for kissing the salacious Cunegonde, his true love (and step-sister!), he begins a hectic romp around the world with his trusty servant searching for Enlightenment. But things go from bad to worse and back again as Candide is shaken by an earthquake, terrorised by torturers and cornered by cannibals. To view all the images from the show please access the ALRA website This picaresque tale is packed to the brim with general silliness and brutal slapstick with impossible dilemmas and improbable escapes around every corner. Can Candide’s eternal optimism survive? Which deleted scene will the audience choose to view? Could this really be the best of all possible worlds?By Voltair, adapted by Scott Hunter
Dance and Drama Awards Funding News – January 2012
The Department for Education has been working with colleagues in the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS), Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA) and Skills Funding Agency (the Agency) to consider a long term solution to providing support for the most talented young people and adults to access specialist dance and drama provision in the UK.
In December 2011, the departments concerned reported that they need further time to consider the options, and that they have therefore decided to postpone the implementation of the new arrangements to commence in September 2013 rather than September 2012 as was anticipated.
The DaDA scheme will therefore be supported for a further, final transitional year in, 2012/13. This means that students showing exceptional talent during the autumn 2011 audition period and who start courses in September 2012 will continue to be offered awards under the DaDA scheme, and will be funded to the end of their courses.
ALRA On The Road
ALRA has a spring in its step this Spring, as we head out on the road. As well as our year-round Outreach visits to schools and colleges, we’re also heading to Bristol, Edinburgh and Manchester to audition. These cross-country auditions can save a small fortune in travel bills for our prospective students.
Bristol: Bristol Old Vic, Sunday 12 February 2012
Manchester: Royal Exchange Theatre, Saturday 18 February 2012
Edinburgh: Traverse Theatre, Saturday 3 March 2012
Fill in our online application, and select your preferred location as you apply.
We’re also taking two full productions on tour to schools and colleges. Candide will tour from the 7 – 10 February 2012, and Welcome to Thebes will tour from 7 – 9 March 2012. Both shows are brought free of charge. To find out more, email asmith@alra.co.uk.
Denise Gough at the Bush Theatre
ALRA Graduate Denise Gough takes the role of Annie in the Bush Theatre’s new production ‘Our New Girl’. The Bush has just won ‘London Theatre of the Year’ in the Stage 100 Awards. This year marks the Bush Theatre’s 40th Anniversary, and its first season in a newly refurbished theatre.
Denise’s theatre work includes Ahasverus (RSC), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Chichester Festival Theatre and West End) and Jesus Hopped the A Train (Trafalgar Studios). For more information and tickets to ‘Our New Girl’, click here.
Michael Gould stars opposite Michael Sheen in Hamlet
ALRA Graduate Michael Gould plays Polonius in the Young Vic’s production of Hamlet.
Michael Sheen takes the title role in this hotly anticipated production.
‘Michael Gould’s excellent Polonius’ – The Independent (to read the full review, click here)
Michael has worked at the top level of British theatre for years, performing with the RSC, Shakespeare’s Globe and the Royal Court. Michael works regularly at the National Theatre, most recently in Greenland earlier this year. He has been directed by Britain’s most acclaimed directors: Adrian Noble, Rupert Goold, Katie Mitchell and Kathryn Hunter amongst them.
Michael has also worked regularly in film and TV, and plays Mr Monks in the eagerly awaited feature film adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful.’
About ALRA South
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ALRA is a drama school, which provides the highest quality training for students following a career as an actor, actress, stage manager or technician. Based in both London and Wigan, Lancashire, we cover TV & film from day 1 to the end of your training. You will also study movement, voice, acting technique and many other elements required to work as a professional actor.
Many famous actors trained at ALRA and now have successful careers from stand up to film and stage. We have foundation, BA and MA courses and some funded places are available to applicants through the DaDA scheme.
ALRA is a drama school, which provides the highest quality training for students following a career as an actor, actress, stage manager or technician. Based in both London and Wigan, Lancashire, we cover TV & film from day 1 to the end of your training. You will also study movement, voice, acting technique and many other elements required to work as a professional actor.
Many famous actors trained at ALRA and now have successful careers from stand up to film and stage. We have foundation, BA and MA courses and some funded places are available to applicants through the DaDA scheme.
