Bachelor's degree

In Bath

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bath

  • Duration

    3 Years

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bath (Somerset)
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Newton St Loe, BA2 9BN

Start date

On request

About this course

220-260 UCAS Tariff points, including two A-levels at BB (one in Drama or Theatre Studies). Alternative qualifications welcome. Entry is by audition only.

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Course programme

The actor training at Bath Spa University has a very distinctive flavour that shapes our students as imaginative, creative, pro-active ‘knowing’ performers. Taught by a highly experienced, internationally active body of academic staff and practitioners, the course places a strong accent on adventure and innovation. The course is practice-based with a strong critical/ theoretical component aimed at fostering a self awareness in the wider context of artistic production.

In Year 1 you will be introduced to the ‘art of playing’ as an overarching framework for gaining and practising performance skills and for understanding performance in modules such as Performance Workshops. You will compose and perform work throughout your first year in modules such as Acting 1.

Year 2 concentrates on extending the idea of ensemble in the work. You will focus on production and performance, developing your understanding through practical and theoretical research and dramaturgy, producing more challenging work in the module Production and Performance.

The third year is devoted to experiential training in theatre and focuses on your professionalisation. In the Module Into Industry You’ll recieve a masterclass series, putting you in contact with industry specialists, (casting directors, producers, agents) which focus on developing your industry awareness. In tandem with these classes you will investigate classical theatre and its relationship with the contemporary. In doing so, you’ll develop your voice as an emerging performer. The training culminates in a thesis production in which you will drive the creative process, creating work which then acts as a graduating showcase. Thesis productions have previously toured locally, nationally and internationally.

Teaching Methods and Resources

We use workshops, lectures, seminars and rehearsals, as well as in-class, studio, main-stage and other forms of performance. A new University Theatre seating 160, with additional teaching and rehearsal space, was completed in 2006.

Your own rehearsals and other extended practice, (such as touring and Performing with the Departmental Theatre Company Full Tilt Theatre Company extra curricular theatre visits and attendance at extracurricular classes and work placements are an important part of the course.

Assessment Methods

You'll be assessed through coursework, including rehearsals, performances, presentations, journals and essays. There are currently no written exams on this course.

Performing Arts

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