BALLYMONEY TIMETABLE
FRIDAYS:
SENIOR ACTING (Year 8 +) - 7:00pm - 7:45pm
YOUTH THEATRE (Year 8 +) - 7:45pm - 9:30pm
SATURDAYS:
TINY THEATRE (Nursery - P.2) - 9:45am - 10:30am
JUNIOR DRAMA & ACTING (P.3 - P.7) - 10:30am - 11:30am
JUNIOR THEATRE: (P.3 - P.7) - 11:30am - 1:00pm
Nursery – Primary 2
Saturday 9:45am - 10:30am
A new and exciting theme every week for our littlest members of Take to the Stage! We aim to introduce the 3 main performing skills; Singing, Acting & Dance in the most basic terms through the use of fun action songs, story-telling, imagination walkthrough, simple dance routines.
The benefits of theatre are endless including building social skills, increasing attention spans, improving speaking and listening skills and building confidence. But most importantly it so much FUN for kids to pretend and use their imaginations to express themselves.
Junior Drama & Acting
Year 8 +
Friday 7:00-8:30pm
The Youth theatre classes explore the three main performing skills in great detail; Acting, Singing and Dancing. These classes provide tutoring in the skills and techniques needed to be a great performer and puts emphasis on students learning the skills necessary to create their own pieces of drama through improvisation and devise. Students will focus on Voice, Movement, Characterisation, Scripts and songs/dance from musicals and films. The benefits of our Youth Theatre classes are endless. Our students’ confidences boost within a week or two of starting classes and strong friendships are formed through group work.
Other benefits:
-Prepare students to be a part of a musical or play
-Key Skills and Techniques learned needed to be a Musical Theatre Performer.
-Communication: Improves vocals projection, articulation, diction and the ability to communicate new ideas
— Memory and Concentration; Memorising lines, songs and dance. As well as focusing in class and participating in different activities that use the mind, body and voice.
-Imagination and Creativity- Develop script writing skills and improvisation skills. Make creative choices, interpret dramatic texts and write your own pieces
But for us the most important benefit of theatre classes is that they are FUN and a chance for kids to express themselves through many different theatre games and activities.