Can acting be taught? How do drama schools actually teach?

This documentary from 1961 spent time with a class of students at Central School of Speech and Drama in London, and their teacher, Harold Lang.

Imaginary injured birds and scarves wrapped round heads are key.


Clip taken from Monitor: The Class, originally broadcast on BBC Television on Sunday, 9 April, 1961.




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