CURRICULUM OF THEATRE COLLEGE "LUBEN GROYCE"

In Theatre College "Luben Groyce" students are taught in subject "Acting for Drama Theatre". The training process goes under the program " Actor of the Living Theatre". The main goal of the subject is to provide the students with a wide range of skills in the field of Drama Theatre in order they to be as competitive in their future professional career as possible after graduating from the college. Therefore the student who has successfully passed all exams, seminars etc. included in the CURRICULUM at the end must:

--have a broad general knowledge and enough professional skills to be possible for him/her to express on stage his/hers individuality and specific way of thinking;

--have profound knowledge about the essence of those subjects that determine the base and the specificity of actor's work;

--be impulsive, adaptable, with good imagination and with self-confidence in his/her emotional and sensuous potential;

--have stage experience which to help him/her in the process of creating a convincing character. On one hand to have a clear conception about his/her role, on the other hand to work diligently and in details when achieving its uniqueness;

--be well informed about the traditional, conventional and contemporary, new ways of acting;

--have the qualities and have abilities to work in a team;

--have the needed knowledge, experience and spirits for building up a character with a realistic persuasive stage behavior;

--have a sense of the different aspects of actor's profession: idealistic, social and individual;

--be aware of the cultural situation in his/her country and as a consequence to have the ability to "communicate" with the institutions of culture in order to find the domain for his/her professional realization;

-- have the skills not only to improvise but also to take part in a strictly constructed and dramatic consistent stage situation;

--have the possibility to continue his/her studies in an institution of higher education;

The practical skills, which the student acquires for his/her professional realization, determine the variety of methods of training during the three years of education in the college.

1.Lecture - is a theory instruction upon a problem that is a part of a thematic circle of the concrete branch of knowledge. Different educational systems are approved and students take active part in them. Discussions take place very often and they are an essential part of the Lecture.

2. Laboratory exercise - creates a situation in which the student has the opportunity to apply his/her theoretical knowledge. Those exercises aim to develop the actor's practical skills. Laboratory exercises are the most important and fundamental part of the studies in the college. They can be implemented individually or in groups from 2 to 4 participants.

3. Seminars - are held depending on the specifics of the concrete subject. Discussions are the main part of working during the seminars. Debates help the individual work done in a small group to be presented at the end to the whole class. Bearing in mind what has been said about the seminars it can be concluded that they are mainly intended to be the time for theory and analytical revisions of the work. On the contrary the public demonstration end its analyses are preferred by the practical subjects.

4.Terminal work-is the process of working out a piece of a role or hole role or writing approach to a theoretical problem. The tutors of the different subjects distribute the tasks at their own discretion. The mutual work between lecturers and students transforms into very helpful consultations, which have not any influence on the final exam decisions.

5. Course project - is "building up" a part in a play. That is the opportunity given to each student to implement in his/her individual project all knowledge and experience he/she has learnt trough the years from the hole complex, system of subjects.

6. Graduating work-is participation in a performance with his/her own built up part. Students have the chance to play on a professional stage and to demonstrate their developed, trough the years in the college, skills and abilities. In that final part of the education students master professional specifics of acting in a real theatrical environment.

Trough the three years studies - 40-50 hours per week. Subjects are structured and based upon the specifics of the courses and each of them finishes with an exam or other specific form of work evaluation.