Approaches to training and directing beginner actors

Abstract

This dissertation focuses on uncovering suitable ways through which beginner actors can gain skills on performing through directing approaches. Using my own personal experience in working with beginner actors, the dissertation defines what a beginner actor is, explores different directing approaches throughout history, and tackles a series of different case studies in which theatre practitioners worked with inexperienced actors. Through research carried out in Chapters 1 and 2, this dissertation then culminates in a series of workshop plans aimed at training beginner actors by means of a devised performance.