51³Ô¹Ïapp

First year

Block 1: Body, Text, Voice

Block 2: Participations

Block 3: Revolutions: Staging Texts OR continue with the route selected in the first year:

• Creative Writing route – Writers Salon
• Education route – Childhood, Social Justice and Education
• English Literature route – Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare
• Film Studies route – Disney, Warner Bros and the Business of the Film Studio
• History route – Global Cities
• Journalism route – Understanding Journalism
• Media route - Media, Culture and Society

Block 4: Theatre Company: Ensemble

Second year

Block 1: Engaging Audiences

Block 2: Making Theatre and Performance

Block 3: Revolutions: Acting and Directing OR continue with the route selected in the first year:

• Creative Writing route – Story Craft
• Education route – Preparing for Professional Practice and Cultural and Educational                               Transformations
• English Literature route - Text Technologies
• Film Studies route – Screen Archives - Preservation, Conservation and Usage
• History route – Humans and the Natural World
• Journalism route – Beyond News: Peace journalism and Opinion Writing 
• Media route – Public Relations and Strategic Communication

Block 4: Theatre Company: Collaboration OR Professional Performance Practice 1 (requires a successful audition)

Third year

Blocks 1 and 2: Select two from the list below:

• Live Art
• Staging Texts
• Theatre Company: Production
• Education and Performing Arts

Block 3: Performance, Identity and Activism OR continue with the route selected in the first year:

• Creative Writing route – Uncreative Writing, Creative Misbehavior
• Education route – Adult Learners and Lifelong Learning OR Gender and Education
• English Literature route – World Englishes: On the page and Beyond
• Film Studies route – British Cinema - Creativity, Independents and Interdependence
• History route – The World on Display
• Journalism route – Music, Film and Entertainment Journalism
• Media route – Gender and TV Fictions

Block 4: Final Project OR Professional Performance Practice 2 (requires a successful audition)

Overview

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, tutor and student led seminars, group work, practical workshops and self-directed study. You will be assessed through a variety of different methods to develop a range of skills including through critical essays, group and individual performances, group and individual presentations, oral vivas, creative portfolios and critical self-reflections and commentaries.

The first year provides you with a range of practical skills and combines performance-based understanding of texts with a theoretical approach that enables you to place your work in its historical context. In your second year you will develop your practical, professional and theoretical engagement, with the opportunity to perform at Curve theatre in a production. In your third year you can pursue your own interests and career aspirations by taking specialist modules. Your studies will culminate in a final project of your choosing or the opportunity to perform at Curve theatre in a production.

Our drama staff have expertise in a number of different fields, including: Shakespeare in performance, popular theatre, applied drama, directing, language and performance, performer training, performance and documentation, performance and the body, gender and performance, live art and contemporary performance practice. Visiting lecturers, actors, practitioners, directors and theatre companies further enhance your learning. 

Contact hours

In your first year you will normally attend around 12 hours of timetabled taught sessions each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 25 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

Curve theatre

51³Ô¹Ïapp and Curve theatre have a cultural partnership which gives you the opportunity to be involved in professional practice in a variety of ways.

An annual collaborative production allows Drama students from all years to participate in professional productions, working with in-house directors, lighting designers and producers on public performances.