BA (Hons) DRAMA, APPLIED THEATRE & PERFORMANCE

t Level 4 your modules will focus on skills in performance making (devising, physical performance, facilitation, and the generation of ideas and creative responses); academic skills (reading, writing, performance analysis, critical thinking); socially engaged performance practice (working with communities, the urban environment, applied theatre methods and approaches). You will also engage in several productions and workshop programmes that will also tour schools in the first year. You will be working with professionals and academics in the field throughout your first year.

At Level 5 your skills are extended and further embedded through exploration and practice of Applied Theatre methods (including participatory performance, theatre in education, forum theatre); Creative techniques, and practices for performance making (devising, directing, script writing, performance art approaches, autobiographical performance) and Creative Entrepreneurship (developing, planning, pitching and delivering events). Exchange students from Columbia College, Chicago, also join the programme in level 5. You will also perform and produce our annual performing arts festival, Emergence as part of fUEL, a music, dance and theatre festival.

At Level 6 you will define your specific areas of interest through a Final Practical Performance Project module and perform as part of our Emergence and fUEL festivals, embark upon a research project (dissertation) where you will have the opportunity to engage in an investigation about a topic and theme of your interest and an extended internship or work placement with one or more of our brilliant industry partners, as listed above including Creative Access, Unicorn Theatre for Children, Outside Edge Theatre, Clean Break, Soho Theatre, Access All Areas . You will extend your exploration of connections between performance making, cultural theories and the potential of performance to have impact in the world.

Graduates who have studied on our BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Performance here at UEL have gained jobs in a wide variety of areas as teachers, actors and performance artists, arts administrators, theatre practitioners and facilitators, directors and also those students who use their performing arts skills in applied settings, such as hospitals and prisons. We also have a number of students each year who go onto postgraduate studies. We always keep in touch with our graduates and support them as they develop their next step and careers. Many students here have discovered that this is a course that gives you the ambition and confidence to successfully manage your career. Some examples of our graduate’s careers reflect the breadth and depth of the degree: Produced Playwrights, Artistic Director of Jigsaw Performing Arts, Drama Facilitator for London Bubble and LIFT, Associate of Playback Theatre Company, Drama and Special Educational Needs Teachers, Creative Workers at a Children’s Hospice, Director of No Colour Films, Stand-Up Comedienne, Artistic Director of YOCA Theatre Company, Director of Off The Page Creative Practice.

Abdul Shayek is one of the great success stories of our department, having become a leading arts administrator and director. He went to work as an assistant director for National Theatre of Wales and now runs his own theatre company, YOCA.

Reflecting on his dramatic progress since graduating, Abdul says: “I feel that without the degree, that may have been difficult to achieve as I was constantly lacking the confidence and correct theatrical language and context to engage in in-depth conversations and discussions.”

FROM
A LEVEL
Must include passes at A2 in at least two subjects.
FROM
BTEC
Extended Diploma or Diploma
FROM
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE
Diploma with 25 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level.
We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths. Applicants will be expected to attend an audition and an interview.