Course Overview
Explore narrative, physical and visual theatre, and text and cultural identity throughout your degree. You will develop your performance skills and explore topics including performance, production, critical and cultural studies, business management, and applied arts practice.
In this course you will:
- Explore a variety of theatre settings.
- Discover theatrical contexts.
- Develop your performance skills.
- Learn to apply your business knowledge to the theatre industry.
- Have the option to undertake a placement with a range of theatres.
- Benefit from our professional industry partnerships throughout your studies.
- Access placement opportunities including roles at The Chichester Festival Theatre, Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Festival, and more.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS – 104-120 tariff points from A levels or combination with AS / EPQ / BTEC/ Cambridge Technical.
- A-Levels- BBB-BCC
- BTEC/Cambridge Technical- DDM
- IB- 28 points
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5.
Career
This BA (Hons) Acting for Contemporary Theatre degree will prepare you for a range of careers in the industry and you will graduate ready for the workplace. Our professional development program offers a range of formal internships with professional partner organizations to ensure that graduates are well-prepared for careers in the cultural industries.
Course Content
Year 1
- Narrative
- Physical & Visual Theatre
- Text & Deconstruction
- Cultural Identity
- Movement Skills
- Voice, Body & Text
- Devising
- Theory-lite
- Modernism
Year 2
- Production (narrative & character)
- Performance Skills (devised text & character)
- Production (postmodern)
- Performance Skills (post-dramatic theatre)
- Site-Specific Theatre
- Clown, Comedy & Mask
- Drama in Education
- Children’s & Young People’s Theatre
- The Body and Performance
- Gender, Sexuality & Theatre
- Theatre, Politics and Activism
- Visual & Technical Arts
- Romanticism
- Postmodernism
Final Year
- Solo Performance
- Adaptation & Direction Workshop Project
- Production
- Personal Study
- Performance Writing
- Documenting Performance
- Performance & Material
- Work Placement
- Company Management
- Applied Arts
