BA Theatre W400

Full Time: 3 Years
This course is designed to inspire your theatrical creativity and provide you with outlets to express it.
You will focus on theatre from the 20th and 21st centuries, covering the work of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Caryl Churchill and Sarah Kane. The course investigates a range of contemporary practices from verbatim to immersive, site-specific work and examples of digital technologies in live performance. You will see performances ranging from popular forms of theatre to the latest intermedial theatre and performance art.
Our state-of-the-art building opened in 2011 and features three theatre spaces, a digital cinema, a dedicated recording studio and a mixing suite. You have access to a studio with a flexible lighting system, multi-camera facilities, a talk-back system and Chroma key and a studio gallery linked to the theatres for live filming and mixing work.
You will use industry standard software with support from dedicated technicians, and all spaces are equipped with state-of-the-art multimedia equipment and lighting.
You can attend optional trips to a range of world-class performances in London and work with academics at the cutting edge of research into stage and screen, in the UK and worldwide.
Over 100 performances, films and television programmes are created in the department each year, meaning that there are plenty of opportunities to develop technical or performance skills. You will learn practical skills from the first year, with the opportunity to direct performances in the final two years.
The department’s Student Arts Fund enables students to produce short films or even take theatre productions to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
You will develop the skills valued by both creative and commercial industries, providing you with a diverse range of career opportunities following graduation.