Ed Richards: What LSBU has to offer is, a wonderful amount of freedom to discover yourself as a practitioner.
Jon Lee: Principally a course about making theatre, but it’s also about, enabling our students and empowering our students to be
able to make decisions or make change in their lives.
[Student performing]
Charlie: At LSBU the modules and the drama course and the tutors make it so easy to experiment
and be yourself and you feel like you’re in such a safe environment to, sort of just
show the work that you care about.
[Student performing]
Gill Foster: We have two theatres, a 90 seat main house theatre and also a more intimate 30 seater studio theatre, so students
can place their work in the environment that’s most appropriate for the piece that they are doing.
In addition, we have a full range of fully equipped dance, drama rehearsal studios.
We also have an excellent theatre technicals team who are able to support students in their technical work.
Our technicians are fully trained, they're from their professions, so students
work in a professional industry environment when they are here.
Tom Davis: We are walking distance from several theatres; you’ve got the National Theatre
and the South Bank, you’ve got the Old Vic, just 10 minutes up the road and the another
5 minutes and you’re hitting the London West End.
Gill Foster: Students have the benefits of being emersed in a cultural environment. They
can see theatre every night of the week if they want. In addition to that, our location means that
we are always receiving casting calls from theatre companies, from TV companies, who would like
our student to work as extras, supporting cast members, community casts and they have
the opportunity to participate in the life of the industry before they leave us, which
is an amazing opportunity.
Tom Davis: I chose this course because the tutors are very encouraging to explore different kinds of theatre, so we’ve studied practitions
from Japan, we’ve studied German theatre, we’ve studied French theatre, and it’s
a really holistic approach to creating.
Gill Foster: All the staff here are working professionals, with their own theatre practice and we think that's very very important in terms
of developing students’ careers and allowing them to network with the administrator at
a very early stage.
Charlie: One of the main reasons that I actually looked at this course is because I knew that Frantic Assembly would come and work with us and do an intensive week.
They're really physical based theatre company that do a lot to do with sort of storytelling through movement of your body.
Ed Richards: The LSBU student theatre company is a brilliant opportunity in second year
to kind of, just be a theatre company you can just immerse yourself within a profession practice.
Tom Davis: The drama society is although it
is an external society it’s a chance for creative students to all come together and
practice musical or plays and the won’t necessarily study on the course and I think
it’s perfect extra-curricular activity.
Charlie: I just feel very prepared to go into the arts industry. I think when I came to LSBU I very much wanted to be an actor and
was the only thing that I thought about and now, you know, I just want write, I want to
direct and I want to produce my own work and I feel like that I can really do it now.
Gill Foster: we treat every student as a unique individual and during their time here, we
take everybody on their own personal journey of creative exploration and discovery. So that
by the time that our graduates leave us they’re very clear about the kind of theatre artist
they want to be