MA in Text and Performance Studies

This joint course with Kings College is closing and therefore no further admissions will be made through Kings College.

RADA will be developing a new course with another institution in the near future so please keep checking back for updated information.

Overview

This can be studied full time for one year or part time over two years.

The courses taught at RADA are designed to deepen and extend an awareness of drama and plays in performance and encourage the students' own creative practice.

The Basics

Teaching sessions are concentrated mainly in the autumn and spring terms with contact hours on Wednesday afternoon and evening, Thursday evenings and all day Friday.

During the summer term students focus on their dissertation work supervised either by RADA or King's. RADA offers optional workshop sessions through the year and King's in the summer term.

In the spring term the students are encouraged to express themselves as writers, directors or dramaturgs through their choice of pathways at RADA.

The training covers:

• Study of texts in their cultural context.
• Practical classes in performance skills and text analysis.
• Lectures, seminars and workshops
• Scene-study workshops with professional directors and classes with specialist skills tutors held at RADA.
• Writing and Directing classes.
• Opportunities for playwriting and directing guided by theatre professionals.
• Specialist seminars with other professionals from theatre and related arts.

Entry requirements

Qualification for entry is a good Honours degree, normally in the arts. In exceptional circumstances appropriate career experience, for example in theatre, may be considered as an alternative qualification.

The course should appeal equally to candidates with an academic knowledge of drama who wish to increase their practical and creative awareness and to candidates already involved in their own practice who wish to explore it through academic study.

Students must be prepared to join in practical group work as well as class discussions.

Students must be over 18 but there are no upper age restrictions and the intake is normally enriched by a wide spread of nationalities, backgrounds and levels of experience.

Candidates must have complete fluency in the English language.