Student Productions

A Brief Look at What is involved in Student Productions at LAMDA

The students involved in LAMDA's productions before the public - both actors and technicians - have trained at the Academy on courses lasting for 2 and 3 years. They are nearing the end of their development and are approaching the beginning of their new journey as fully-fledged professionals.

The productions, performed at both LAMDA's MacOwan Theatre and Linbury Studio, have been rehearsed, like professional productions, for five or so weeks with a professional director, using one of a variety of methods. The directors will be either a regular member of staff or a visiting artist.

A second professional will have designed the physical production, which will have been assembled by the stage management and technical students at LAMDA. They will have built scenery, made or borrowed properties, hired equipment, as well as participated in the design of the lighting and sound plots. During the course of the performance, these students will manage all these, according to patterns and sequences decided in the technical rehearsal.

At LAMDA they serve the industry by imitating its methods and techniques; they serve the art of drama by encouraging a creative and individual use of them. LAMDA students emerge from their training courses ready to enter the real world of living theatre.