Single Honours Degrees

BA (Hons) Drama, Performance and Theatre Arts

BA (Hons) Theatre Studies and Technical Stage Production

These integrated awards give students the opportunity to engage with Theatre, Plays, Documentary Drama, Live Art, Technical Theatre, Stage Management and other theatre crafts in the context of professional theatre and contemporary performance. If you undertake the "Drama, Performance and Theatre Arts" course, then acting will be fundamental to your studies and you will also have opportunities to explore other theatre production disciplines, such as costume, settings,
marketing and so-on. Students who undertake the "Technical Stage Production" course will specialise in stage management, lighting and sound but will not be required to perform as actors unless they opt to do so. It is important to stress that, whilst they are intensively practical, these are not vocational training courses.

Both awards use workshops, rehearsals and staged productions to explore plays, ideas and methodologies in performance and production, while academic modules are taught via lectures and seminars. You will be assessed by presentations, coursework or take-away papers and will not be required to sit formal exams.

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• Drama, Performance & Theatre Arts
  
  
• Theatre Studies and Technical Stage Production

Core modules for Single Honours

Level 1 Core modules

• Early Stages: Drama from Sophocles to Ibsen
• Theatre Production
• Local Theatres
• Script and Text in Performance
• Studying Theatre Arts

Either

• An Actor Prepares (Performers only)

or

• Technical Theatre Arts (Technical students only)
  (Content subject to change)

Level 1 option modules

• Introduction to Multidisciplinary Performance Techniques
• Holding the Mirror up to Nature (Theatre Directing)
• Performing Shakespeare
• Making Theatre
• Community Theatre

Level 2 core modules

• Nothing Natural: 20th Century Theatrical Explorations
• Theatre Practice: Play Production Project
• Documentary and Verbatim Theatre
• Theatre Industry - 1: Arts Project
• Documentary Performance

Level 2 options modules

• From Anger to Politics
• Site-Specific Theatre (Content subject to change)
• Reading Theatre
• Funny Ha-Ha? Comedy in Post-War British Drama
• Using the Arts for Health
• Radio Drama (Technical students only)

Level 3 option modules

• Small-scale Theatre
• From Page to Stage: Adaptation in Performance
• Live Art
• This Island's Mine: Contemporary British Drama
• Playwriting
• Dissertation
• Postmodern Theatre
• Professional Placement
• Drama Research Project
• Drama Research Presentation