Conservatory / diploma training · Initial professional preparation
Full-Time Course
The Market Theatre Laboratory · Newtown, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
- Award
- No formal award
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In personfull-time, one-year course; first year divided into four terms and 40 weeks long
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Full-time one-year course for emerging actors, theatre-makers, directors and writers, with a possible invitation to a nine-month advanced second year.
- Offering
- Conservatory / diploma training
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Actor training
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Structured course (no award)
- Award status
- No awardThe course or class does not lead to a formal award.
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- full-time, one-year course; first year divided into four terms and 40 weeks long
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-timeFull-time attendance for the whole programme is compulsory
- Teaching location
- Market Theatre Laboratory138 Lilian Ngoyi Street, Newtown
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- One monologue in an audition video of a maximum of one minute
- Self-tape
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Applicants are contacted to confirm an audition/interview date and are given an audition brief.
- Prior education
- Certified copy of Matric Certificate / most recent report if currently in matric
- Writing or research sample
- One page of creative writing (no less than 250 words)
Fees
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per class, per term, per year, whole program) and is never converted or added up for you.
The provider does not publish a price for this offering on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and any deposit or refund terms.
Performance opportunities
As published by the provider. Showcases and productions are opportunities to perform; they do not guarantee agents, auditions, casting, union eligibility or work.
- Productions
- Students rehearse and perform productions during the year
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)