Acting for the Stage
Perth Actors Collective offer weekly evening classes for those wishing to increase their core Acting Skills. These lessons will be taught by experienced professional actor and director Noel O'Neil. Read more about Noel's background below. Classes will be held at Subiaco Arts Centre, 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco [2 blocks from Daglish Station].

Numbers are strictly limited so enrol now for 'Acting for the Stage 1'. The 6 week evening course will cost the same as our PAC Screen Workshops (the lowest advanced acting course fees in Australia) at $225. To secure your place a $50 deposit is essential. The balance of $175 will be due prior to the commencement of the course. Payment can be made in three ways: either by phoning our office on 9384 4604; via internet banking tranferring your deposit or course fee into our bank account (please email for details), or by posting a cheque or money order for either $50 deposit or $225 course fee made out to Perth Actors Collective, 1 Arenga Court, Mt.Claremont WA 6010. Enrol now via this website and we will be in contact with you to discuss how you would like to pay.

Stanislavski Technique Classes
Lesson 01		No acting please, Create your world on stage, How to gain the feeling of real life through imagination.
Lesson 02		How to exist on stage without pretending to, Using your five senses plus common sense, Preparation- so as not to enter the stage emotionally empty, Incorporating a sense of truth into the work.
Lesson 03		Stage presence without overacting, clichés, and mannerisms, Emotional life, dealing with true emotions, How to believe in what you are doing so that the audience can, Creating that sense of belief.
Lesson 04		Justify your stage life-everything you do on stage, Bringing life to the written word, Given circumstances and how they affect you physically and emotionally, Eliminate generalisation-“mediocrity is death to an actor”.
Lesson 05		Objectives, not feelings are to be thought of, Characterisation from inside out and outside in, Powers of observation and Stanislavski’s magic “if”.
Lesson 06		Scene study including sensory work and characterisation, Monologues, In communion with other actors on stage, Pride in your profession and your life.

Noel O'Neill - download bio

Noel was born in Ireland and moved to New York where he studied acting with Lee Strasberg and Herbert Berghof. He appeared in many Off Broadway productions such as: Of Mice and Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Come Back Little Sheba , Alfie and The Hostage…

Since arriving in Australia Noel has appeared on stage in Skin Tight and on screen in Salem’s Lot and The Great Raid. Noel has written three award-winning plays and fulfils his passion for teaching as the current lecturer for “Approach to Acting” at WAAPA.

Venue
Subiaco Arts Centre
180 Hamersley Rd
Subiaco