CAREERS: COURSES

Established six years ago as a pioneer of short courses for young people wishing to develop their acting skills, the Oxford School of Drama offers unique introductory two‐week acting courses during July and August, and an Edinburgh Festival Performance course of four weeks in August/September. As part of a recent expansion full‐time courses of one year or two for committed students are also offered. Courses take place in a converted eighteenth‐century farmhouse in the rural outskirts of Oxford. A number of famous names are associated with the School. Denholm Elliot is Patron, and Prunella Scales, Roger Rees and Susannah York are just a few of the celebrities already on the invitation list for visiting lecturers in 1987. Courses are run by professional actors and directors whose first‐hand knowledge of the theatre is ideally suited to encourage the aspiring performer. Voice‐training, movement classes, mime, improvisation and the opportunity to “tread the boards” in public are all included in the busy programme. Open auditions in London and Oxford will be held between March and May 1987 to select students for the different courses; experience is not essential.