Drama & Performance BA (Hons)

Course content What will you study?

Here is an overview of current modules available on this course. Regular updates may mean that exact module titles may differ.

Year 1

Mandatory

• Staging Plays: Reading, Research & Performance
• Making Performance: Devised Performance, Production and Scenography

Optional

• Acting for the Stage
• The Actor, Voiceand Solo Performance
• Mask Acting
• Puppetry and Visual Theatre
• Theatre and Community
• European Theatre Practices
• Singing for Performance
• Production and Meaning
• Introduction to Devising

Year 2

Mandatory

• Directed Public Performance: Research & Development
• Directed Public Performance: Process, Production, Performance

Optional

• Plays& Playwrights: British Theatre in Times of Change
• Applied Theatre
• Devising & Adaptation
• Theatre & Digital Media
• Music Theatre
• Making Theatrical Space
• The Actor & Poetic Text
• Choreography & Performance
• Adaptation: From Stage to Screen
• Playwriting
• Theatre, Real Lives & History
• Directors & Directing
• Physical Theatre

Year 3

Mandatory

Either:

• Independent Research Project

or:

• Final Performance Project

Optional

• Work Placement
• Theatre for Young Audiences
• Theatre & Education
• Politics & Performance
• Site Specific Performance
• Contemporary Performance Practices
• Theatre & Disability
• Staging Shakespeare Today
• New Voices in Contemporary British Theatre
• Sexuality in Performance
• Scenography: Specialist Project
• Professional Practice
• Writing for Performance
• Touring Theatre Production
• Performances of Protest
• Dance Styles

My experience of Drama at Worcester was invaluable. The course provided me with the essential tools to pursue a career in teaching the subject.

Nicki Smith, Drama teacher, Thomas Telford School