The practice-based nature of our programmes requires an extensive
range of specialist studios, workshops, and rehearsal and performance
spaces.
The College campus provides excellent facilities, including:
- Two theatres: The Rose, a 330-seat theatre-in-the-round, and the
multi-functional 100-seat Barn Theatre (newly refurbished in 2009)
- Two fully equipped flexible black box studio theatres
- Ten fully equipped rehearsal, movement and voice training studios
- Two digital recording studios, computer laboratories and six off-line video
and audio suites
- Three fully equipped lighting design laboratories
- A costume and wardrobe complex for costume construction, maintenance and
storage
- A scenic workshop complex for scenic arts teaching, scenery and props
fabrication
- Theatre design studios with CAD facilities
- Stage management and production teaching studios
- Two lecture studios with audio-visual facilities
- Specialist computer suite for CAD, 3D, visualisation, and audio and video
editing
- A student social space for relaxation and social networking.
The Learning Resources Centre
Designed to augment the specialist performance and production facilities, our
Learning Resources Centre (LRC) is the core learning and teaching resource in
the College, offering a range of amenities to provide students and staff with
the best possible opportunities for quiet study and research.
Resources include a collection of 40,000 scripts, books and journals on the
performing arts and related subjects, with large collections of periodicals,
sound and video recordings and slides. All college computers have access to the
internet and printing. The LRC also provides space for specialist learning
support activity.
The titles catalogue links the LRC to the libraries of the London Borough of
Bexley. Inter-library loans come from Bexley and from the British Library. The
main public area houses the majority of the collection and offers generous study
space. There is a silent study room and a separate studio housing a
computer-aided design suite.
The LRC holds a stock of audiovisual equipment available to staff and
students, and a range of design materials and other media are available for sale
in the College. The special collections room contains unique material on
Stanislavski and John Masefield, an important archive of material collected by
Professor Clive Barker, an extensive video and film archive on Indian Kathakali
dance theatre performance and training collected by David Bolland, and the
College archive.
The LRC also provides a number of essential services, including timetabled
induction sessions for all new students, a programme of information sessions
linked with teaching projects aimed at assisting students in developing critical
research methods, and a range of printed study guides and information
sheets.
The LRC holds regular study support sessions. Formal information skills
sessions are offered to all students in addition to ‘drop in’ advice sessions. A
qualified librarian is always available for consultation. A number of study
support tutors based in the LRC specialise in helping students with dyslexia,
and students for whom English is a second language, as well as offering more
general study advice.