AUDITIONS for the two year training beginning October 2013. Next AUDITION June 10th

Next SUMMER COURSE: 22nd July - 10th August

Next SHORT COURSES: One Week 8th-13th July
One Week 15th-20th July
One Week 2nd-7th September
Four Day 13th-16th August
Four Day 18th-21st September

The Poor School aims to deliver the highest quality acting training for the lowest possible cost.

Over 25 years of graduates have gone on to enjoy successful careers in theatre, film, comedy and radio. Some ex-students have founded their own companies, others have become producers, directors, casting directors and agents.

The two year training begins each autumn and is scheduled largely in the evenings and at weekends.

Entrance is by audition or via a short course.

As a school that has never relied on subsidy our fees are not subject to the large increases that most other vocational or academic courses are now charging.

We run Four Day Courses through the year (Tuesday to Friday, daytime) and Three Week Summer Courses in July and August (Monday to Friday evening and Saturday). There is no audition; entrance is by enrolment.

Dominic Cavendish, drama critic at The Daily Telegraph, attended a Four Day Course in June 2010. Here is his review. And there are more Poor School reviews on Hot Courses.