Useful answers before you book.

These are time restricted discounts applied automatically if you are booking within the set time.

Prices will revert to full price after the early bird date has passed. However, DISCOUNT codes will now apply for those who have them.

We will release DISCOUNT CODES for our Newsletter subscribers and organisations such as the SMA, ABTT, EQUITY and BECTU.

Book the class as usual then insert your code at checkout.

When you book your class you should receive an auto response email with all the details. if not details are displayed on the website page.

A day or two before the course we will email you with all the information. If it’s online the Zoom invite to the course will also be sent you, just click the link at the appropriate time and date.

Please get in touch if you have not received a confirmation email or text.

Yourself, water and snacks as classes are not always held within easy reach of food outlets.

Please wear fight friendly clothes such as gym clothing and trainers, no jeans or boots. Maybe bring something to take notes on.

Please remember to remove jewellery and turn off your mobile phone.

No, most people attend on their own and by the end of their first class they have a new set of buddies.

PLEASE CHECK THE WORKSHOP LISTING or confirmation email as we often use different venues.

Nope, sorry, full payment is required in advance once you have filled in a registration form.

If you are taking a BADC exam we request payment a day in advance in cash.

Yes, by filling in an online registration form via the course page for every course you wish to attend.

The rehearsal process will probably not have enough time is rarely to train actors for the physical and contact work demanded by the production.

The Fight or Intimacy Director/Coordinator will create the action based on the actors physicality, ability and comfort (boundaries). Which is why training and experience is so highly valued.

In your professional career it is highly likely that you will perform some form of emotive physical action from a kiss to a sword fight.

Intimacy and Stage Combat are based in similar principles and form a unique culmination of all the actor’s disciplines: voice, movement, script study and performance confidence. You will gain a physical vocabulary that will aid your rehearsal process and can help protect you both mentally. emotionally and physically.

As well as how to work safely while being physical. There are many transferable skills: setting boundaries, learning how to work with others bodies, interpreting movement, inclusivity, truthfully storytelling, terminology, integrating the voice into the physical, being repeatable and accurate, learn how you learn best, H&S including any legal ramifications, improved coordination and confidence.

Absolutely not, many actors come to intimacy and stage combat through drama school and then continue their training after a few years of being out in the world. Many come back years later.

We cater for all levels of fitness and ability, we work with what ever you bring us.

The British Academy of Dramatic Combat is the oldest Stage Combat Academy in the world, established originally as the Society of British Fight Director (SBFD) in 1969, changing its name and directive in 1996.

Most Academies were originally based on the original BADC’s system in some way.