You’ll develop essential skills by focusing on voice, body, movement, ideas and practices, and other skills and techniques. We’ll also look into global issues and modern practices and ideas. You'll explore scene-studies from a range of texts with a common theme, and develop an ensemble performance of original live work.

Modules

Performance Skills
Performance, Culture & Contexts
Play Texts
Making Skills
Contemporary Performance Practices & Concepts
Ensemble Performance

You’ll take on advanced body-based training, and learn about technical theatre, directing, writing and creating drama, and designing things like sets, costumes and lighting. And you’ll put on a solo performance using styles like scripted monologue or stand-up comedy.

Working in a team, you’ll put on a production about the relationship between a show and its audience. You’ll also create original material and build a professional portfolio by studying advanced performance techniques. Looking into different theatre companies, production houses and theatre festivals, we’ll explore what they’re doing, how they work, and how they stay strong and active.

Modules

Technical Theatre & Scenography
Solo Performance
Immersive & Participatory Theatre
The Performer’s Body, Directing & Dramaturgy
Modes of Making
Theatre Futures

Using your critical and reflective skills, you’ll research and write a paper on a certain area. You’ll also develop performance material - individually or in a group - beginning as a small test showing and finishing as a public production for industry specialists. And by taking on a professional development project, you’ll get ready for the industry by sharing your work on a range of platforms and networks.

Modules

Creating Companies
Master Classes
The Thinking Practitioner: Student-led Research
Professional Development
Professional Production