Acting and Performance

BA (Hons) Acting and Performance scored 100% overall satisfaction for NSS 2020.

BA (Hons) Acting and Performance provides the perfect blend between screen and stage, preparing you with the techniques, knowledge and experience to launch a fantastic performance career after graduation.

You will be immersed in a balanced and stimulating programme of study of acting and performance, integrating theoretical and critical analysis and receiving up-to-date contemporary actors’ training alongside building essential skills, such as audition and interview techniques – ready to step up to the challenges of the industry. Optional modules also enable you to specialise in areas such as directing, teaching or applied theatre, broadening career pathways further.

The course also offers opportunities to get involved in a wide range of recorded screen performance projects alongside live performance practice, enabling you to develop your acting skills in a friendly and nurturing environment.

Thanks to the course teams close links with industry, you’ll have the chance to gain practical experience through working with local professional institutions; working on live briefs, auditions and work experience opportunities. These close links include The Mayflower Theatre, The Point Theatre Eastleigh and the Nuffield Theatre. In addition, you will have the opportunity to participate in a wide range of student and professionally directed film projects to expand and develop your screen acting skills and produce a varied showreel.

During your final year of study you will have the opportunity to participate in a showcase to help launch your introduction to the industry and establish networks to support your career development.

As an acting and performance student you will have access to a wide range of resources to support your learning including professional HD cameras, radio suites, multi-camera studios, and professional theatre venues. You’ll also have the chance to work alongside our film and TV production students on live performance work, providing you with the unique opportunity to develop equally in screen and stage performance, helping to support your employability.

Our academics work closely with industry to ensure that you receive the most up-to-date and relevant training for the contemporary performing arts.

What does this course lead to?
The broad nature of this degree prepares students for a career as an actor/performer for stage, screen or radio.

Who is this course for?
Solent’s acting and performance degree is ideally suited to students who want to develop a career in acting and performing arts, be it to develop your own company, or work with production companies on screen or stage. Applicants ideally will have some previous experience and/or qualifications in drama and will be required to present an audition.

YEAR 1 - CORE MODULES
Performance Practitioners and Techniques
The Actor's Body and Voice
Discovering Acting
Performance Histories
Directed Production
Screen Practice and Performance

YEAR 2 - CORE MODULES
Performance and Identity
Acting and Performance - Live Brief
Screen Acting
Contemporary Theatre
Theatre Production
Monologues

YEAR 3 - CORE MODULES
Final Major Project - Acting and Performance
Research Project
Screen Projects
Actors Portfolio

YEAR 3 - OPTIONS (please note that not all options are guaranteed to run each year)
Performance Arts in Education
Directing
Music Theatre
Stage Combat

The course is assessed via individual and group performances (live and recorded), presentations, portfolios, workshops, quizzes, devising and written assessments.