Drama BA(Hons)

Why choose this course?

This course enables you to explore the practice, history and theory of drama in a range of contexts and settings. You will have the chance to work with leading professionals and be actively involved with productions. Our drama team has links with theatre and television, a close association with the town's Rose theatre, and is engaged in up-to-the-minute research.

You can also choose to study Drama as a joint honours degree alongside another subject. See the course combinations section for more information. 

What will you study?

This course combines theory with practical work. You will look at different approaches to the study of performance; explore the skills of the actor, director and designer; and study theatre history. You will learn stagecraft techniques and procedures, and can focus on areas that you fi nd particularly interesting, such as performing, designing, writing for the stage and devising.

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Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year 1

• Performance Vocabularies and Methods
• Staging Histories
• Creative Acting
• Performing Theories
• Text and Performance
• Transforming Texts: Literature and Adaptation

Year 2

• Devising Theatre
• Shakespeare: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
• Performance Research
• Brave New Word: the Play Today
• Commedia
• Devising in the Community
• Heard not Seen: Writing for Radio
• Naturalism and the Actor
• Stage Directions
• Staging Women
• The Third Dimension: Spatial Exploration
• Physical and Dance Theatre

Year 3

• Independent Research
• Production Project 1: Drama Text
• Production Project 2: Devising Drama
• Clown
• De-colonising Drama
• From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: Beckett and Pinter
• Playhouses, Plays and Punters: the Renaissance Experience 1576-1642
• Scribbling and Script: Writing for the Stage
• Shakespeare's Women
• Special Study: Cabaret and Variety Performance
• Special Study: Performing Postmodernism
• The Roar of the Crowd: Romantic Gothic Melodrama
• Smells like Teen Spirit: Writing Popular Music Lyrics
• Special Study: Physical Text