BA Drama
Entry requirements
A level: CCC Applicants may satisfy the requirement for the final A level grade (C) by substituting a combination of alternative qualifications to the same standard as defined by the University.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Performance and Design for Theatre and Screen, covering stage and screen performance practices. Core topics include Design & Creative Practice, Project Management, Entrepreneurship, and Research Methods. The collaborative Production Process module stages a full public performance, and a Placement module offers work-based learning in a theatre or arts organisation. An Independent Project allows students to pursue their own research question through a dissertation, performance, or workshop.
Modules
- Dramatic Structures on Stage and Screen
- Acting 2: Studio Practice
- Performance Technologies
- Space and Performance
- Acting 1: Text and Performance
- Critical Practice
- Arts Administration
- The Form and Function of Performance
- Political Theatre from Expressionism to Brecht
- Introduction to Directing
- Production Process
- Acting 4: Acting and Screen
- Theatre and Community
- Educational Arts
- Writing for Stage and Screen
- Acting 3: Commedia dell'Arte
- Placement
- Independent Project
- Liveness and Documentation in Performance
- Creative Business
- Advanced Playwriting
- Representing Violence
- Performance and Disability
- Advanced Directing
- Storytelling and Performance
- Acting 5: Advanced Acting
- Performing Ireland on Stage and Screen
- Arts Entrepreneurship
- Performing Community
- Performance and Conflict Transformation
- Performance and Health
- Theatre and Ritual
- Theatre for Young Audiences