Bright Lights Theatre School

BrightLights is thrilled to announce our 2019 Town Hall shows.

First up in 2019 will be our Coalville Friday school and our Loughborough Wednesday school, who will be joining together to perform Calamity Jane at Loughborough Town Hall on Sunday 19 May with performances at 3 pm and 7 pm.

Following on our 3 Loughborough weekend schools will all perform Chicago from Thursday 27 to sunday 30 June. Each school will perform twice, meaning we will have 3 completely seperate casts!

Tickets are now on sale, priced at £12.50 each direct from us, or through any BrightLights student. Please call 01509 646647 or 01530 542646 to book!

BrightLights Theatre School are really excited to be able to announce that for the first time ever we will be having a fully signed BSL performance!

This will be our performance of High School Musical at Loughborough Town Hall on Thursday 21 June 2018 at 7 pm. Tickets, priced at £12.50, are only available from BrightLights students, or from our office. You can contact us to book tickets by calling 01509 646647, email office@brightlightstheatreschool.com, text 07858 714314 or write enclosing a cheque. (plus £1 per order P&P) to BrightLights Theatre School, The Hive, Warren Hills Road Coalville LE67 4UU

BTS Acting is a new specialist acting only session from Brightlights Theatre School launching this January! The sessions will be held at the Drama Studio, Charnwood College, Thorpe Hill, Loughborough starting on 11 January 2018.

Students will be taught by Alexander Turner and Nick Sutcliffe with guest teachers from the industry.

For the first few months the sessions will be focusing on devising and physical theatre, finding the “play” in performance, and the importance of movement and body control in theatre. For the older group we will also cover the importance of creating your own work in the modern arts environment. All of this will culminate in a completely devised performance by the end of the Summer term.

BTS Acting classes are on Thursdays and run from 5.30 – 7pm for 8-12 year olds and 7.30 -9 pm for 13 – 18 year olds. Our term dates mirror local schools although we do not break for half term. The cost is just £10 per week, payable termly in advance, and there are several ways to pay including monthly instalments. Also, there is the opportunity to attend 2 taster sessions before making any commitment. If you would like to attend taster sessions it is £20 for the 2 weeks, if you decide to sign up after that we take it from there, if not there is absolutely no obligation.

BTS Acting will operate with exactly the same ethos of inclusivity as BrightLights, where ALL our students are equally welcome and equally nurtured. No experience is necessary – just enthusiasm!!

For further information or to secure your place please call us on 01509 646647 or 01530 542646

Or email us at bts@brightlightstheatreschool.com

BrightLights new school year is off to a flying start across our 4 schools. We have very limited availability in Loughborough in our 2 Saturday schools, and some availability in our new Friday evening Coalville school.

Please call us on 01509 646647 or 01530 542646 for more information or to book your place. Don’t forget to like our Facebook page www.facebook.com/BrightLightsTheatreSchoolUK to find out all our latest news – including exciting announcements about our upcoming masterclasses with industry experts, and our show titles for 2018!

Students at our BTS Performing Arts session were lucky enough to have a 3 hour screen acting/audition technique masterclass with Kate Bone from three time Emmy Award winning Nina Gold Casting recently. Kate is part of the team at Nina Gold who has been responsible for casting actors in films such as “Bridget Jones Baby”, “Paddington”, “Star Wars – The Force Awakens”, “The Danish Girl”, “Les Miserables” as well as huge Netflix hit “The Crown” (the most expensive TV series ever made in the UK!!) and HBO’s worldwide smash “Game of Thrones”.

Kate talked at length about the different approach and techniques used for screen acting compared to theatre performances. Each student made their own “ident” i.e. personal introduction at the start of any screen audition. They had also learnt a piece of script from various projects that Kate has cast, and were subsequently screen tested with Kate reading the other parts in. After each student had read we then got to watch the clips back on screen, when Kate gave individual feedback and advice. She was VERY impressed at the amount of talent in the room and looks forward to meeting our students again!! This was a BRILLIANT opportunity for our older students – as far as we are aware BTS Performing Arts is the only school for miles who offer this kind of training, aimed specifically at older students who are looking towards a career in the Performing Arts Industry.        

For more information on Nina Gold’s projects please see the link here –

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002274/