Drama, Theatre and Performing Arts

Drama, Theatre and Performing Arts

By studying Drama, Theatre and Performing Arts, you'll benefit from exceptional teaching and industry links that will help you to launch your career. Covering a wide range of subjects and developing your practical skills as well as critical thinking, this dynamic course allows you to explore your own style and creativity and follow your passions and ambitions.

We'll challenge you with theoretical and practical study, empowering you to shape your degree around your areas of interest. You'll work alongside fellow students, creating new work and new ways of seeing established works. Our team of academics, professional practitioners and technical specialists will support you every step of the way as you analyse, create and critique, developing your understanding of drama and theatre and becoming a more confident performer.

You'll study within an exciting and diverse environment, benefitting from our strong connections with industry and local arts venues, opportunities for workplace learning and our flagship Graduate Theatre Company scheme, all of which support you in kick-starting your career within the creative industries. You can take this degree with a year of working or studying abroad.

Your future

The School of Arts works hard to maintain strong relationships with professionals and venues, helping to launch your career in the creative and cultural industries. You’ll be taught by leading actors, comedians and makers with first-hand experience of what it takes to carve out a successful career in the arts. Their continued involvement in the industry will help you as you start to build your own network.

Our graduates have developed careers as: journalists, authors, literary managers, directors, performers, scriptwriters for television, stand-up comedians, casting agents, event managers, arts administrators, community theatre officers for local councils, and drama teachers.

Location

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The following modules are what students typically study, but this may change year to year in response to new developments and innovations:

Stage 1:

Making Performance 1: The Fundamentals;
Making Performance 2: Staging Texts;
Making Performance: The Festival;
Popular Performance and Citizenship;
Performance Skills;
Puppet and Object Theatre.

Stage 2:

Compulsory modules currently include the following:

Creative Careers;
Theatre & Adaptation;
Performance Design and Technologies.

Optional modules may include the following:

Acting;
Introduction to Musical Theatre Dance;
Popular Performance Project;
Costume and Fashion;
Disability and the Arts;
Writing for Performance.

Stage 3:

Compulsory modules currently include the following:

Creative Project;
Dissertation.

Optional modules may include the following:

Physical Theatre - Ensemble Devising;
Directing Theatre, Staging Ideas;
Stand-Up Comedy;
Psychology of the Arts;
Arts Internship;
Acting Shakespeare;
Community and Participatory Performance.