B.A. Drama and Performance (Hons)

Course Content Year 1You'll develop skills and techniques in acting, directing and writing through workshops with theatre professionals and lecturers. You'll write and perform a monologue, participate in an actor's scene study and ensemble devised performances. You'll also collaborate on a workshop production with fellow students. Practical learning is supplemented with critical thinking, analysis and reading on performance history, context and theory.

• Performance laboratory 1
• Text into performance
• Twentieth century theatre practice
• Performance histories
• Writing, performance and the subject
• Systems of rehearsal: the actor

Year 2

You'll develop your professional CV by taking part in a Student Theatre Company production. You'll work with a professional theatre team including director, production manager and designer. The student company will take on all aspects of the performance and production including: performing, lighting, design, marketing, publicity, event management and box office.

You'll also focus on innovative modes of contemporary performance during modules on multi-media technologies in performance, contemporary theatre adaptation and experimental theatre practice. You'll develop your movement and technical skills with an intensive artistic residency with physical theatre company, Frantic Assembly.

• Professional theatre company productions
• Performance laboratory 2
• Multimedia performance
• Practices of adaptation
• Physical theatres

Year 3You'll begin to articulate your own practice as a theatre artist, developing a large scale independent performance project focused on your strengths and interests. You'll also take part in professional workshops on composition for performance preparing you to enter the working world as a creative practitioner.

• Creative strategies
• Professional toolkit
• Independent performance project
• Research project
• Independent practice as research project