Course Overview
You will develop your acting and creative skills with performances and creative projects. 50% of the course syllabus involves acting skills training that leads to professionally directed productions. You will work with established text and develop an understanding of key acting styles and contexts. Alongside your performance skills, you will develop your knowledge of narrative, physical theatre, verbatim theatre, cultural identity, clowning, Shakespeare, and children’s theatre, and have opportunities to study motion capture, voice work, and showcasing. Academically you will discover critical and cultural studies and investigate topics including modernism, romanticism, and post-modernism.
You will become a member of a shared creative community where cultural identity, experimentation, and research are central to making live and recorded theatre. This course focuses on critical thinking and professional development well as performance craft and technique. You will be able to take part in casting opportunities, auditions, and talks with industry professionals.
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- DMM
- IB- 28 points
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5.
Career
This BA (Hons) Acting degree will prepare you for a range of careers after you graduate.
You could choose to continue your studies at the postgraduate level. Study options at the University of Chichester include:
- MA Theatre
- PGCE
- Ph.D./MPhil
Course Content
- Acting
- Voice
- Movement
- Physical theatre
- Narrative
- Verbatim theatre
- Cultural identity
- Theory-lire
- Modernism
- Screen acting
- Singing
- Stage combat
- Shakespeare
- Script writing and character
- Production (devised)
- Site-specific theatre
- Clown, comedy and mask
- Children’s and young people’s theatre
- The body and performance
- The body and performance
- Production (new play)
- Production (devised)
- Filming of acting showreels
- Solo performance
- Personal study
- Professional development