BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
Key Information
Campus location
London, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts
The BA in Drama and Theatre Arts is designed to foster creative, radical theatre-makers and thinkers. It is adventurous in form, international in scope and hands-on in practice.
You will begin your degree by developing a range of practical, dramaturgical, and critical abilities. In your first year you learn technical and design skills, begin ensemble work together and start to think about what it means to perform and make theatre in today’s world. These skills are brought together in a festival of work in the summer term.
As the degree progresses, students can choose from a wide range of options and are given more independence in building their own creative work. Supported throughout by regular meetings with a personal tutor, you develop specialist knowledge of practical methods and approaches to theatre-making, manage production schedules, company budgets, and theatre design processes, and can make professional connections through work placement.
By your third year, you are able to examine complex ideas in depth, whether as an independent scholar writing a dissertation or as an experimental theatre-maker, working on your final degree productions for a public festival. These final productions often act as a springboard into the professional sector.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
Year 1
- Critical Dialogues A
- Critical Dialogues B
- Introduction to Dramaturgy
- Scenography
- Theatre Making 1
- Processes of Performance: Encounters with Space
- Processes of Performance: The Ensemble
Year 2
- Theatre Making 2
- Modernisms and Postmodernity A
- Theatre and the Artistic Avant-Garde
- Women, Feminism & Playwrighting
- Samuel Beckett: Performance, Writing and Philosophy
- Bertolt Brecht and Political Theatre
- Modernisms and Postmodernity B: Activism and the Theatrical Avant Garde
- Postmodern Gender, Identity, and Queer Theory
The aim here is to develop an understanding of the relationship between a work and its historical - social, cultural, intellectual - context. You choose two option modules from a wide range within the department. Options are likely to change from year to year depending on staff interests, but modules offered recently include:
- Elements of Theatre History: American Theatre in the Mid-20th Century
- Elements of Theatre History: Shakespeare & Renaissance Theatre
- Elements of Theatre History: Classical Greek Theatre
- Elements of Theatre History: Theatre of Revival and Revolt: 20th Century Ireland
- Elements of Theatre History: Russian Theatre
- Elements of Theatre History: Spanish & Catalan Theatre
- Elements of Theatre History: African Theatre
- Elements of Theatre History: British Alternative Theatre History
- ETH: Polish Theatre
- Elements of Theatre History: Francophone Theatres from Africa, the Caribbean and Canada
- QoP: Character I
- QoP: Self
- QoP: Gendered Performance
- QoP: Emotion
- QoP: Voice/ Text
- QoP: Questions of Community
- QoP: Time
Year 3
- Culture and Performance: Critical Cultural Theory
- BA (Hons) Drama & Theatre Arts
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Our graduates emerge with a complete range of skills, equipped to challenge contemporary theatre and to put new ideas into effect. Our students have gone on to work as
- Performers, directors, choreographers, movement directors, casting directors
- Writers, editors, and dramaturgs
- Producers in theatre, film, radio, digital arts, visual arts, and community practice
- Play, screen and radio writers, and journalists
- Community arts practitioners
- Lighting, sound, set, and costume designers
- Stage and production managers
- Venue and event managers
- Marketing and promotion specialists
- Teachers, workshop leaders and facilitators, lecturers, and academics
English Language Requirements
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