BA Drama, Theatre and Performing Arts
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 120 tariff points - typically H5 H6 H6 or equivalent.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Music / Performance and design for theatre and screen. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Practical work spans performance design, puppetry, stand-up comedy and physical theatre, with modules in acting, directing, writing for performance and community practice. The course can be taken with a year in industry or year abroad, and the on-campus Gulbenkian Arts Centre hosts theatre, dance, music and film.
Modules
- Making Performance 1: The Fundamentals
- Making Performance 2: Staging Texts
- Making Performance 3: The Festival
- Popular Performance and Citizenship
- Performance Skills
- Puppet and Object Theatre
- Creative Careers
- Theatre & Adaptation
- Performance Design and Technologies
- Acting
- Introduction to Musical Theatre Dance
- Popular Performance: Alternative Cabaret
- Disability and the Arts
- Writing for Performance
- Creative Project
- Dissertation
- Physical Theatre — Ensemble Devising
- Directing Theatre, Staging Ideas
- Stand-up Comedy
- Psychology of the Arts
- Arts Internship
- Acting Shakespeare
- Community and Participatory Performance