Intensive Course
Circo Massimo

Intensive Theatre Course - Circo Massimo

In addition to the Three-Year Acting Diploma Course, the Academy offers a varied range of courses designed for those who, for study, work, or personal needs, cannot commit to a full-time academic path; for those wishing to approach theatre for the first time; or for those who want to deepen acting tools and techniques in a flexible yet consistently professional way.

The Intensive Theatre Course is a hands-on, immersive journey to explore acting styles, genres, and techniques.

The format concentrated on weekends makes it ideal for those with weekday commitments or who live outside Rome, offering an engaging training opportunity that’s accessible even from afar.

Structured as a series of nine monthly intensive workshops, the course tackles, each time, a specific theme or a different theatrical style, fostering an in-depth and progressive exploration of the main acting genres and techniques.

Main contents

• 1. STAGE PRESENCE – TRAGIC MONOLOGUE: 25–26 October 2025
  An intensive path dedicated to stage presence and the tragic monologue, through essential gesture, neutral mask, chorality, and breath, restoring to body and voice the ritual and dramatic power of the word.
• 2. MÉLODRAMA – POETRY – MODERN DRAMA: 8–9 November 2025
  A focus on poetic acting and modern drama to explore grand emotions through voice, resonance, articulation, and paradox, between the musicality of verse and psychological depth.
• 3. W. SHAKESPEARE: 13–14 December 2025
  An immersion in the Shakespearean universe—verse and prose, monologues, scenes, and counter-scenes—to give body and voice to extreme passions, the lucid folly of the fool, and the power of the word that moves space.
• 4. STORYTELLING – NARRATOR-MIME – MIME AND PANTOMIME: 10–11 January 2026
  From gesture to word and back: the narrator-mime animates tales, fables, and sacred plays with the art of mime and pantomime, between symbolic evocation, accelerated rhythm, and direct dialogue with the audience.
• 5. COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE – MOLIÈRE: 14–15 February 2026
  A lively exploration of Commedia dell’Arte and Molière, moving from improvisation on the scenario to the stage construction of timeless characters such as Zanni, Pantalone, and the Captain.
• 6. GROTESQUE THEATRE: 7–8 March 2026
  An immersion in the theatre of expressive excess, between distortion, parody, and ferocious comedy, where the modern buffoon lends voice and body to an allegorical, ridiculous, and cruel humanity—between laughter, tears, and altered languages.
• 7. CHARACTERS AND COUNTER-CHARACTERS: 25–26 April 2026
  Breathing life into a character means crossing their gestures, intentions, and silences: this workshop accompanies the actor in discovering the deep motivations and opposing tensions that inhabit the stage.
• 8. THE COMIC PHENOMENON: 16–17 May 2026
  A laboratory on comic dynamics and stage listening, where the clown-actor experiments with the duo, the gag, failure, and the art of making people laugh through precision, rhythm, and wonder.
• 9. THE THEATRE OF THE ABSURD: 20–21 June 2026
  The workshop addresses the theatre of the absurd between 20th-century and contemporary writing, in a visual landscape that evokes Beckett, Ionesco, and the historical avant-gardes.

Course objectives

• Practically and intensively explore the main theatrical acting genres and languages
• Develop bodily and vocal awareness through a variety of stage approaches
• Acquire technical, interpretive, and expressive tools specific to each style tackled
• Foster adaptability and creation across different languages, eras, and codes
• Offer each participant concrete opportunities to engage with diverse theatrical materials and practices

Methodology

The alternation of genres (tragic, comic, poetic, grotesque, mime…) enables a cross-disciplinary training geared toward modular, theme-based learning and direct experimentation.
Each workshop is conceived as a creative environment in its own right, yet connected to the others by a pedagogical through-line that supports growth, autonomy, and interpretive versatility.

Who it’s for

• Those who wish to intensely explore different acting techniques and languages
• Those with prior theatre experience who want to consolidate skills across varied styles
• Those seeking flexible yet rigorous training, concentrated on weekends
• Those who work or study during the week but want to devote themselves to theatre seriously and consistently
• Performers, actors, educators, and creatives aiming to broaden their expressive toolkit through a modular, hands-on approach

Attendance and format

One weekend per month

Hours: Saturday and Sunday 9:00 - 13:00 / 14:00 - 18:00

Year-long pathway, with the option of a quarterly module or single workshops

Quarterly schedule
2025–2026

Quarterly schedule 2025–2026

• 1st quarter: 25–26 October 2025, 8–9 November 2025, 13–14 December 2025
• 2nd quarter: 10–11 January 2026, 14–15 February 2026, 7–8 March 2026
• 3rd quarter: 25–26 April 2026, 16–17 May 2026, 20–21 June 2026

Enrollment and fees

• Annual enrollment: € 60
• Quarterly fee: € 350
• Single workshop: € 200 enrollment

Contacts

The Office is open for 2025–26 Course enrollments from 8 September.

📞 +39 340 3215860

📞 +39 06 7009692

📧 info@scuoladiteatro.it

"Theatre is the art of encounter." - Augusto Boal