The learning outcomes for the students that successfully complete the course include the following levels of learning:

1. Knowedge

On the level of theory:

The concpt of the presence on stage is discussed in contrast with actor’s presence in film, as well as the relation between analytic thought the function of chance in acting in theatre and film. Moreover, the students come to understand the difference in the profession of acting between theatre and film, with respect to temporality, space and the functioning of the means of expression such as the face, the voice and the body. Finally, students discuss issues related to the theatrical stage and its limits, the unstable borderline between the professional actor and the actor as a social subject, as a performative presence. The students are introduced to the basic principles of the art of acting by means of exploring the views of significant theatre masters (Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Grotowski, Novarina, Brook, Oida, Vasiliev, Barba).

On the level of practice:

- The students recognize various stimuli on stage coming from the external surroundings, the stage space and the fellow actors, thereby broadening their kinaesthetic response.

- They identify and invent specific points of concentration during dramatic improvisations and they learn to be always alert.

- They search for a specific and focused verbal address and they seek that particular dramatic action.

- They are disciplined in circumstances of team action.

- They are in a position to recognize the basic tools of dramatic improvisation.

2. Artistic expression

- They deploy their senses consciously and systematically on stage, aiming to avoid being introvert on stage.

- They narrate an extract from a literary text in front of audience.

- They interpret theatrically a song in the context of a specific situation on stage.