Recharge Your Theatre Practice

 Recharge Your Theatre Practice 

Career Long Professional Development for National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher Drama Teachers. Re-energise your Practice in Directing Actors and Devising Theatre

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Join us at the RCS or CentreStage Kilmarnock for workshops led by professional theatre makers which will leave you upskilled, inspired and reconnected to your artform.

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 Devising Theatre 
Led by: Theatre Maker Phillipa Clark
*Choose from either Glasgow or Kilmarnock

Wednesday 2 November
4 – 6pm
RCS, Glasgow
Wednesday 9 November
4:30 – 6:30pm
CentreStage, Kilmarnock

This session will be practical, purposeful and playful.  Explore strategies for creating devised drama from a stimulus. Refresh your skills and develop your toolkit of theatre-making techniques in a collaborative environment.  Philippa’s influences as a theatre maker include Frantic AssemblyPina Bausch, Quarantine, Mammalian Diving Reflex and Candoco. 


 Directing Actors 
Led by: Theatre Director Guy Hollands
*Choose from either Glasgow or Kilmarnock

Wednesday 10 November
4 – 6pm
RCS, Glasgow
Wednesday 16 November
4:30 – 6:30pm
CentreStage, Kilmarnock

Gain insight into Guy’s approach to directing, with an emphasis on the director’s relationship with actors in rehearsal. The session will include some practical work on text and a Q&A and hopes to build your own confidence with directing.  Guy has worked with companies including the Citizens TheatreEdinburgh LyceumRCSVisible Fictions and 7:84 


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‘Absolutely loved this session!
Great delivery, content, pacing…every CLPD should be like this!’
– Drama Teacher, CLPD May 2022 

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If you require any further information or have any questions, email: fairaccesshello@rcs.ac.uk

Get Into: Production (Ayr)

 GET INTO: PRODUCTION (AYR) 

Open Day for 16+ and Twilight Session for Teachers

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Think the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is just about acting and music? Think again!

Come and find out about our incredibly versatile and hands-on undergraduate Production ProgrammesThere are two available streams: Production Arts and Design and Production Technology and Management.

Production is a vital part of any live event. Our aim is to train young people for a wide range of careers across theatre, TV, film, music concerts, live events and beyond.

Did you know? 

  • Woodwork can lead to a career in Set Construction
  • Art & Design can lead to working as a Scenic Artist or Prop Maker
  • Fashion and Textiles can lead to being a Costume Maker
  • Physics and Computing can lead to careers in Lighting, Sound and Theatre Technology

Find out the pathways from school and college to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Explore our training. Take part in taster workshops. Meet our staff and students.

Event information:

Twilight Tour for
Teachers, Lecturers, DYW
Venue: The Gaiety, Ayr
Wednesday 14 September
4.30pm – 6.30pm

Open Day for those
aged 16+
Venue: The Gaiety, Ayr
Wednesday 5 October
9:45am – 11:45am

Register your interest by clicking the button below:

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If you require any further information or have any questions, email: fairaccesshello@rcs.ac.uk

Applications for 2022/23 Are Open!

Applications are now open for our funded Transitions programme where students receive support to kick start their journey in the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Over the next few weeks and months, you’ll be able to hear from our students and alumni on what it has meant to them to be part of the Transitions programme. First up we feature some of our music students and alumni.

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📸 Robbie Mcfadzean

We recommend that students apply as soon as possible in order for applications to be considered for 2022/23 entry. In order to guarantee consideration for an Autumn 2022 start, applications need to be submitted by the closing dates below:

  • Music: 7 February 2022
  • Acting & Musical Theatre: 28 March 2022
  • Film & Production: 30 May 2022

Head over to our ‘Apply’ page to apply and find out more.

If you have any questions about your application, you can contact us on: transitions@rcs.ac.uk

Theatre Without Walls

Production Design Course

We recently completed an exciting 5 week-long bespoke theatre design initiative.  A small group of 8 students with an interest in theatre design and the production arts were given the opportunity to work with studio three sixty° an award-winning multi-disciplinary theatre design practice. 

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This was an exciting and stimulating educational project where our students were supported and encouraged to draw from their surroundings, history, and interests to design viable and exciting performance spaces that could be situated at their heart of their communities.

Our students were inspired by a design process that enabled them to develop individually, growing in confidence and understanding of their own potential.  By the end of the 5-week initiative, the students presented their very own, very beautiful pop-up theatre designs for a variety of locations across Scotland.

Sound like something you’d like to get involved with?

We hope to run this course again later in the year or early in 2022 – if you are aged over 16 and Transitions Eligible then please e-mail f.higson@RCS.ac.uk to request a registration form.

Transitions is for young people who have talent and potential in the performing arts and are living at postcodes that are identified as being within the top 20% on the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) list as well as those who are care experienced or estranged. 

You can check whether you are in one of the eligible areas on the SIMD postcode checker here.

Mini Open Day: Film and Production

Mini Open Day: Film and Production

When:   Sat 24 April, 4pm – 5:30pm
Where: Online via Zoom
Who:     Open Access and Free for those interested in Filmmaking or Theatre Production
We are however especially keen to welcome people who are Transitions or WACI eligible.

If you are interested in Filmmaking or Theatre Production you are welcome to come along and join us for one or both of the following sessions:

  • Filmmaking Workshop
  • Women in Technical Roles Discussion

We will also give you information on all the amazing things you can do in production and film as well as how Transitions could support you towards studying on these courses at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.  

Hear From Our Students

Hear from our students talk about their experience with Transitions:  

Kieran is a Transitions Filmmaking Alumni 

Aisha is a first-year Lighting Student

 

Book your place now:

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Watch Our Fair Access Expo Live Sessions!

The Fair Access Team would like to extend a warm thanks to everyone who virtually attended our recent Fair Access Expo.

It was a bit different this year –  however, the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. We’re glad so many of you found it useful. For those who couldn’t make it along on the day, our microsite contains a recording of the live sessions ready to watch back. 

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Have you ever wanted to know more about Fair Access at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, including information on the Transitions and WACI Programmes? Are looking for advice in studying or working in the performing arts?

Why not head over to our microsite now to watch back our live sessions:

  • Meet The Teams, Transitions and WACI
  • Industry Interview, with Laura Waddell and Graeme Smilie
  • Student Life, a showcase and Q&A (Content Warning! Swearing)

You can also: 

  • watch pre-recorded videos from students and professionals 
  • hear from the Assistant Principal and Fair Access Manager at RCS
  • watch our Fair Access Virtual Band perform
  • find links to information on UCAS and UCAS Conservatoires, 
  • links to funding information from the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS)
  • direct links to our programme websites

Again, thanks to everyone from all the team!

Visit the Fair Access Expo microsite here:

🌐 rcs.ac.uk/fair-access-expo