Theatre BA
Course
In Uxbridge
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
Uxbridge
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Start date
September
The Theatre programme at Brunel will offer you subject specialist skill-sets that you will gain from a holistic approach to studying and training in performance while also acquiring fundamental transferable life skills of collaboration, negotiation, teamwork, leadership skills, presentation skills, problem-solving and project-management, that are applicable in almost all professional environments.
At Brunel we offer you the opportunity to study and specialise in a wide variety of skills-based strands ranging from Acting, Applied Drama, Digital Performance, Directing, Musical Theatre, Physical Theatre and Playwriting. You then get the chance to apply what you’ve learnt through our work experience module ‘Professional Experience and Development’. You’ll study both theatre theory and practice in historical and contemporary contexts.
You will be taught by staff who are cutting edge academics and industry specialists and who will enable you to nurture your own links with the world of employers once you finish your degree at Brunel. We offer practical routes to careers in the creative industries, in education or in further postgraduate research.
Our strategic location in London enables us easy access to the city’s rich and diverse culture and theatre events. We seek every opportunity to take you on theatre visits and look for ways to offer you workshops with cutting edge theatre companies as part of your course. Past theatre trips have included productions at The Barbican, The National Theatre, Royal Court, Sadler’s Wells and others.
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Subjects
- Approach
- Acting
- Musical Theatre
- Theatre
- Performance
- Writing
- Musical
- Dance
- Production
- Drama
Course programme
You will encounter both cutting edge practice and critical performance and cultural theories on the course with an emphasis on historical and contemporary contexts and practices.
In your final year you will – through independent and collaborative work – be ready and able to produce a theatre performance, an applied drama project or write a full length play.
The BA consists of both compulsory and optional modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.
Level 1
Compulsory
Perspectives 1
Ensemble Production
How to Read a Play: Fundamentals of Dramatic Text
Optional
Acting: Essential Skills
Applied Drama Practice: an Introduction
Digital Performance 1
Directing 1: Contexts, Theories and Practices
Playwriting 1
Musical Theatre 1
Physical Theatre 1: Between Dance and Theatre
Level 2
Compulsory
Perspectives 2
Optional
Acting: Beyond Naturalism
Directing 2: Contexts, Theories and Practices
Writing 2: Experiments in Language for Performance
Applied Drama Practice: Project
Physical Theatre 2: Performance and Embodiment
Digital Performance 2
Musical Theatre: Histories, Practices and Theories
Performance as Research: Second Year Production Module
Level 3
Compulsory
Professional Experience and Development
Final Production or Written Dissertation
Optional
Psychogeography
Perspectives 3: Battling with Ideas
The Canon Re-loaded
Advanced Physical Theatre
New Writing: Page to Stage
Advanced Musical Theatre
Additional information
Theatre BA