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The Applied Art of Acting Three Month Programme auditioning now
20 Apr 2015 : Seán Brosnan
IFTN talks to David Scott about The Applied Art of Acting three month programme
The Applied Art of Acting is now auditioning for its fifth annual intake. The course will run from the first week of September for three months.

Run by actor, writer and tutor David Scott, this training course has been designed as responses to the requirements of professional actors in the business who want to take their standard of performance to the highest levels.

Speaking to IFTN about the course and the experience of being in the studio, David Scott, familiar to many in the industry as one of the most active teachers of acting both in Ireland and internationally said: ‘I suppose I have created the course I would have wanted to do myself as an actor. Something that is time efficient, totally immersive and intensive and most of all, effective. There’s no wasting time and money. It just works. This is a course that takes the student actor on a journey in which real improvement happens right before their eyes from day to day and sometimes from hour to hour.’

He continued: ‘The technique taught is almost impossible to explain in words. I make a decent fist of it on the website I suppose, and of course in the actual manual that the actors get on the first day. I’ve written three books on the work now, but really you have to feel it for yourself to understand just how transformative it is. It’s taken a long time to develop, and incredibly it’s still evolving. As long as I stay in touch with the absolute cutting edge of actor training going on around the world, I can keep the thing right on that edge.’

The Applied Art of Acting course includes intensive fulltime training, headshots, show-reel material and a final Industry-invited showcase. Many professionals visit the course to run workshops and speak to the students and in the past those have included Mary Maguire, Wayne Jordan, Ali Coffey, Louise Kiely, Owen Roe and Nick Dunning.

‘These are our friends. They like coming in and meeting the students’, said David Scott. ‘I think there’s a misconception out there that casting people and directors are nepotistic and closed off, and that successful actors are wary of new talent coming through. That’s just not the case at all. The opposite is true. Ali and Louise in particular stress it over and over that they want to know who and what’s out there. To do their job well, they need actors at the top of their game and they go looking for them. And to hear about the experiences of professional actors who really understand the struggle, even though successful, is grounding for the actors in the course. It’s easy to get jaded and afraid of the big guns in the business, but the truth is, they’re just real, decent people trying to make a piece of work happen.’

The course teaches both stage and screen acting using a specific technical approach. Audition and screen-test technique is also a priority.

On his approach to the course, Scott said: ‘I’ve often been asked “How can you teach someone to act in three months?” When it’s a single technique and every moment of the seven and a half hour day is trained on applying it, it’s possible. In fact it’s a certainty. You’d be surprised how much the human faculty can absorb when it’s charged up the right way and placed in a totally creative environment.’

On auditioning for The Applied Art of Acting David says: ‘Anyone can audition any time, although I need to stop at the end of July to prep throughout August. I take only sixteen students and I fill it as I go, so the sooner you audition the better your chance of there being a place. I don’t set up a long, harrowing process of some kind. It’s one to one. I don’t want to see an actor trying to manage nerves. I want to see a real human being who has an artist lurking within them show me what they’ve come up with. It’s just one monologue from any stage play. Then it’s a longish chat. Not an interrogation. Just a good old getting to know you chat.’

‘We’re going to be living in each other’s pockets for three months. We need to know we can get on. And I need to know you’re going to respond to the teaching and to this highly advanced approach to acting as an art form. You don’t have to be one of the best actors in the world. That’s my job. To make you one. If I think you can take this technique and use it to become an actor-artist, someone who is undeniably excellent at their craft, that’s the person I need on my course.’

The next Applied Art of Acting course is filling up already, so potential students are advised to make contact with David as soon as possible.

David can be contacted via email at davidarts@eircom.net, by phone at 087 759 6715 or visit his website: www.davidscott.ie.





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