Drama school in Croydon for children and adults

Curtain Up Speech School in Croydon provides expert training in Speech and Drama for children and young adults.

Its a great place for Children to learn new skills, meet new friends and explore their creativity.

"Curtain Up" runs after-school classes for children and young adults aged between five and eighteen. Home-education (daytime or evening)

Classes start at age five and can continue until eighteen and are grouped into four levels accordingly: Introductory, Foundation, Intermediate and Advanced.

At our school in Croydon we know that Speech & Drama is important. At the center of all Drama is communication, and like all the arts, Drama allows students to communicate with and understand others in new ways, while providing training in the very practical aspects of communication so necessary in today's information-centered world.​

The goal is to help students to gain skills in three main areas:

• Technique
• Using the voice and body to communicate meaning
• Interpretation
• Engaging emotionally and intellectually with words
• Knowledge of
• Acting theory
• Background to classical and modern drama in English
• Principles that underline English verse and prose

Students who attend classes at Croydon take a LAMDA exam every year.
For information on how the grades are arranged at "Curtain Up" please click here.

The Croydon Festival of Music, Drama and Dance takes place in the Spring term and "Curtain Up" enters students in the speech and drama category. 

If you would like to find out more about our classes in Croydon please call 07947545309

​We welcome children from South Croydon, Purley, Elmer End, Thornton Heath, Wallington and Carshalton and surrounding areas.