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ADULT ACTING

ADVANCED LEVEL COURSE

Spring 2025:

The course is now full.

Please fill the waiting list form:

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Adult Acting Advanced Level Course at GEST

The Advanced Course continues to refine your acting skills. You will learn how to analyse theatrical texts on a deeper level and to express a character's emotional expression through stage production exercises, role-play and improvisation. You deepen your knowledge of acting through working with plays or larger texts together with your group. Class size is around 18 people, and the course culminates in a longer live performance in front of family and friends.

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This course requires you to study some texts and monologues at home, giving you the opportunity to focus on your acting during classes. The Advanced Course also includes a bonus session, where you and your scene partners spend in-depth time with your tutor, working on your scenes.

No session week 7.

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SPRING TERM 2025

When: Mondays, 27th January - 24th March

Time: 19:15 - 21:15

End show: 29th March

Where: GEST Theatre, Karl Johansgatan 88

Course leader: Kristina Brändén Whitaker

Course fee: 2750 SEK regular, 2550 SEK student

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COURSE LEADER

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Kristina Brändén Whitaker

Kristina is one of GEST’s Artistic Directors and an actor, director and playwright. She has extensive experience in theatre, television and film both in Sweden and internationally. 

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She has acted in many of GESTs productions: Poison, Ghost Stories, Do you understand me, Are we not drawn onward to new erA, Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, The Events, Belongings, My Romantic History, Cock, Expectations, Contractions, After The End and After Miss Julie.

 

Most recently she directed the GEST productions of Fair Play. She has also directed Do you understand me, #WRU, Voices, Broken Biscuits, Every Brilliant Thing, OFFLINE andYen all for GEST. 

 

Her playwright debut Expectations, in which she also played Klara, won the Fringe Award for Outstanding Theatre at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010. Since then she has also written Do you understand me, #WRU and co-created both OFFLINE and Voices for GEST


At present she can be seen on the cinema in the film Hypnosen by Ernst De Gerr. Other television and film credits include; The Store (Onoma Productions) Jakten på en mördare(SVT), the Swedish-Danish TV series Bron (The Bridge) for SVT, the international IFTA winning feature film As If I Am Not There (Stella Nova Films/Wideey Films), Steven Spielberg's Band of Brothers, Peter Birro's and SVT drama's Viva Hate and How Soon is Now (Upp till Kamp), and SVT's award winning Sanningen om Marika.

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