Theatre BA

Course

In Uxbridge

higher than £ 9000

Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    Uxbridge

  • 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.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Uxbridge (Middlesex)
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Kingston Lane, UB8 3PH

Start date

SeptemberEnrolment now open

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Subjects

  • Approach
  • Acting
  • Musical Theatre
  • Theatre
  • Performance
  • Writing
  • Musical
  • Dance
  • Production
  • Drama

Course programme

Course Content

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

Special Features The expertise and commitment of the teaching team. Small class sizes for all practical work. 15+ contact hours per week at Level 1. Trips to see professional theatre plays in London with your entire year group and course tutors. A unique learning experience through the tutorial system where you develop a close working relationship with your Personal Tutor and fellow students in a weekly seminar group of maximum ten students. This regular contact builds a strong bond between student and tutor and enhances the BA Theatre community within the Department of Arts and Humanities. The opportunity to study six skills areas at entry level and then select one or two areas for specialist study in your final year. A two-day Professional Experience and Development ‘boot camp’ to prepare you before you go on an industry experience relevant to your career aspirations with support throughout the process. Established links with the theatre industry.

Theatre BA

higher than £ 9000