Classes > Theatre & film.

Chilli Beans is our dynamic, performance-based Musical Theatre group where creativity and confidence take centre stage. With a passion for singing, dancing, and acting, students are encouraged to express themselves while developing their performance skills in a supportive and energetic environment. Through scriptwriting, acting, songwriting, and choreography workshops, the group works collaboratively to create exciting original musicals, blending their own ideas with both self-written and well-loved songs.

Electric Beans are a group named after the energy in the room… Electric! With a strong focus on physical theatre, students use movement to tell stories, express abstract ideas and create bold, imaginative performances. Training happens through a diverse range of methods, creating electric and eclectic shows based on the stories that students want to tell. Electric Beans aims to boost confidence, self-esteem and communication skills.

Foundation Arts Beans, or FAB for short, is our foundation drama group where students can develop core performance skills at their own pace. With a strong focus on building confidence over time, the group empowers every student to explore their creativity and gradually discover their performance strengths. Through the use of mixed media, drama-based activities, and small group projects, students are introduced to a wide range of drama techniques without the pressure of a public performance.

Baked Bean Players is a playful, performance-based comedy group that collaborates to create original comedic theatre inspired by the ideas and experiences that matter most to our actors. Through a fun and energetic mix of games, improvisation, and devising workshops, students develop confidence, creativity, and strong stage skills, both as individual performers and as part of a supportive ensemble. The group encourages self-expression, teamwork, and bold storytelling, creating performances that are imaginative, entertaining, and full to the brim of personality!

Screen Beans is a group that focuses on the exciting world of filmmaking. The class gives students the opportunity to explore acting for screen whilst developing hands-on production skills in a fun and professional environment. Through energetic workshops, camera experience, improvisation, and full-scale practical film projects, students learn the techniques of screen acting and storytelling, as well as building confidence both in front of and behind the camera. Working collaboratively as a production team, students create original films, from short form to feature length, bringing their ideas to life on screen.

Our founding drama group creates bold, original theatre that uses an eclectic variety of playtexts to take inspiration from. From Shakespeare sonnets to modern scripts, students devise, write, and perform their own productions while developing acting and performance skills. Alongside theatre-making, they build confidence, communication, teamwork, coordination, speech, memory, problem-solving, and social skills, all while discovering the power of storytelling and self-expression on stage.