Drama and Theatre

Description

Combining the study of traditional theatre with performance practice, our Drama and Theatre BA develops your skills and creative vision for a career in the theatre profession.

In your first year, you learn basic performance skills, technical theatre disciplines, and how to work creatively and safely on and behind the stage. Productions are directed, devised, designed and performed by students, advised and supported by their tutors. Previous examples include plays, installations, physical theatre, stand-up comedy, applied theatre projects in schools, museums and community venues and design exhibitions.

Later in the programme, you are given the opportunity to undertake work experience in the theatre world. Close links with the professional industry are reflected in guest lectures and placement opportunities.

Our diverse range of teachers includes academics with years of university teaching experience, and theatre professionals who have worked in the industry doing anything from theatre design to directing, stand-up comedy, stage management, acting or arts funding. Our technical team (made up of a production manager and three technicians) is equally well qualified, with professional experience ranging from local festivals to international collaborations in opera, film, music and performance.

The course structure has an emphasis on employability, with modules covering a range of professional practices, and we offer a range of employability support. Past graduates have gone on to become actors, theatre producers, directors, and scriptwriters among other professions.

If you wish to combine drama with another subject, we offer a wide range of joint honours degrees, which lead to a combined BA (Hons) over three years.

The on-campus Gulbenkian Theatre seats 340 people and is regularly used for productions and post-performance discussions. Additional facilities include the Aphra Theatre courtyard venue, the Lumley Studio, two rehearsal and teaching studios, flexible seminar rooms, a fully equipped construction workshop and a sound studio.

Study resources on campus are excellent. Templeman Library offers over a million publications, films and images. It is particularly renowned for its Drama and Theatre Studies manuscripts, including collections of playbills, programmes, prints and other theatre ephemera, as well as theatrical biography and the history of the stage in the 19th and 20th centuries. It also has particular strengths as a research resource in English Renaissance drama and European theatre, especially Russian and French drama, as well as specialist collections on Jacques Copeau and Jerzy Grotowski. There are also over a thousand PCs on campus and a range of support services for help or advice.

Detailed Course Facts

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 14860 Year (Non-EEA)

• Total Kent credits: 360
• Total ECTS credits: 180

• Total Kent credits: 360
• Total ECTS credits: 180

• English

Course Content

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

• DR315 - Modern Theatre: A Theoretical Landscape
• DR317 - Texts for Theatre
• DR334 - Stagecraft
• DR337 - The Empty Space

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

• FI590 - Improvisation For Screen
• DR612 - Shakespeare's Theatre
• DR663 - Physical Theatre 1
• DR681 - Theatres of the Past 2: The Moderns
• DR682 - Theatre and Music
• DR549 - Acting
• DR575 - Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
• DR594 - Popular Performance
• DR609 - European Naturalist Theatre & Its Legacy
• DR667 - Site Specific Performance
• DR669 - European Theatre from 1945
• DR671 - Puppet and Object Theatre
• DR673 - Theatres of the Past 1: the Classics
• DR674 - Performance and Art: Intermediality from Wagner to the Virtuals

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 3

Possible modules may include:

• DR676 - Introduction to Stand Up
• DR678 - Creative Project
• DR680 - Theatre & Adaptation
• DR610 - Performing Lives: Theory & Practice of Autobiographical Theatre
• DR592 - New Directions
• DR548 - Theatre & Journalism
• DR683 - Performing Philosophy
• DR664 - Physical Theatre II
• DR619 - Playwriting I: For Beginners
• DR629 - Cultural Policies in the British Theatre
• DR635 - Dance & Discourse: Dramaturgies of Moving Bodies
• DR636 - The Shakespeare Effect
• DR648 - Applied Theatre
• DR659 - Performing Classical Texts

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Requirements

The University will consider applications from students offering a wide range of qualifications, typical requirements are listed below, students offering alternative qualifications should contact the Admissions Office for further advice. It is not possible to offer places to all students who meet this typical offer/minimum requirement.

• ABB

• The University of Kent will not necessarily make conditional offers to all access candidates but will continue to assess them on an individual basis. If an offer is made candidates will be required to obtain/pass the overall Access to Higher Education Diploma and may also be required to obtain a proportion of the total level 3 credits and/or credits in particular subjects at merit grade or above.

• The university will consider applicants holding BTEC National Diploma and Extended National Diploma Qualifications (QCF; NQF;OCR) on a case by case basis please contact us via the enquiries tab for further advice on your individual circumstances.

• 34 points overall or 16 at HL

The University receives applications from over 140 different nationalities and consequently will consider applications from prospective students offering a wide range of international qualifications. Our International Development Office will be happy to advise prospective students on entry requirements. See our International Student website for further information about our country-specific requirements.

Please note that if you need to increase your level of qualification ready for undergraduate study, we offer a number of International Foundation Programmes through Kent International Pathways.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

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• Access Bursary

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• Alumni Bursary

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