Drama ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your Drama degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

• Year 1
• Year 2
• Year 3

Year 1

Your first year includes a combination of practice-based and seminar-based modules:

• London/Culture/Performance
• Power Plays
• Making Theatre and Performance
• Beyond Acting
• Interventions
• Spectatorship: Time, Place, Performance

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• Culture, Power and Performance
• Group Practical Project

You choose the rest of your modules from a range of options that changes each year.

Practice-based:

• Action Design
• Adaptations
• Making Contemporary Theatre
• Performing Personae
• Performing Shakespeare
• Theatre Writings

Seminar-based:

• Acting Theory
• Costume Dramas
• Dance Theatre
• Illness and Disability in Performance
• London Performance Now
• Naturalism
• Places of Performance
• Race and Racism in Performance
• The Senses in Performance
• Theatre for the People
• Voice, Gender and Performance

This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Choose from

• Practice-Based Research Project
• Written Research Project

You choose the rest of your final-year modules from a wide range of options that changes each year.

Practice-based:

• Applied Performance
• Choreographic Performance
• Making Site-Specific Performance
• Performance Composition
• Performance in the Gallery
• Verbatim, Testimonial, Tribunal

Seminar-based:

• Culture, Performance and Globalisation
• Feeling It: Emotion and Sensation in the Theatre
• Offstage London
• Performance and Community
• Shakespeare After Shakespeare
• Show Business: Theatre and Capitalism
• Writing About the Arts

This is a sample of modules from our full module directory.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Drama BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

Additional Costs

A few modules may require you to buy books and tickets to performances or exhibitions, and travel within London. Tickets are free in your first year and, where possible, offered at a discounted rate in subsequent years.