BA(Hons)Theatre & Performance

Study location	United Kingdom, Falmouth (Penryn Campus)
Type	Bachelor courses, full-time
Nominal duration	3 years
Study language	English
Awards	BA(Hons)
Course code	238U

Entry qualification	High school / secondary education (or higher) The entry qualification documents are accepted in the following languages: English. Often you can get a suitable transcript from your school. If this is not the case, you will need official translations along with verified copies of the original.

Language requirements	English IELTS: 6.0 (with a minimum of 5.5 in each skill) CAE: 168 (with a minimum of 162 in each skill)

Other requirements	At least 1 reference(s) must be provided. A motivation letter must be added to your application.

More information	falmouth.ac.uk/theatre-performance

Overview

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Programme structure

Year one

You’ll begin skills training, focusing on voice, body, movement, text-work and a range of theatre making skills and techniques. Two lecture series introduce theatre’s role in the world and key contemporary practices and concepts. Seminars help to unpack lectures and to develop your thinking.

You’ll work creatively with play texts, exploring scene-studies from a range of work united by a common theme, and you’ll develop an ensemble performance, presenting original live work.

By the end of first year you‘ll be able to:
o Engage effectively in individual and group making processes
o Learn to locate your developing sense of practice within critical, historical and contextual frameworks
o Apply a range of skills and techniques to your performance work

Year two

Your skills training continues with a focus on technical theatre, scenography, directing and dramaturgy. Further body-based training continues, at an advanced level. You’ll make a solo performance, working with a range of possible forms, including scripted monologue and stand-up comedy.

A participatory and immersive theatre production will see you work collaboratively on a performance that interrogates the relationship between a show and its audience. Workshops on advanced techniques for generating performance material will inform your making process and produce original material, framed by a critical and reflective portfolio. A seminar series will introduce the work of current theatre companies, production houses and theatre festivals, looking at how organisations work and how they remain sustainable and resilient.

Workshops on advanced techniques for generating performance material will inform your making process and produce original material, framed by a critical and reflective portfolio. A seminar series will introduce the work of current theatre companies, production houses and theatre festivals, looking at how organisations work and how they remain sustainable and resilient.

By the end of second year, you’ll have:
o Advanced your core performance skills and making techniques
o Explored a range of contemporary modes of making and production, developing both your individual and collaborative practice
o A thorough understanding of the potential professional contexts and challenges your work will contribute to.

Year three

We‘ll support you in becoming a proactive, independent practitioner, able to manage a sustainable career and create forward-facing opportunities. You’ll take a series of master classes to consolidate and further extend your skills and techniques.

Using a range of critical and reflective skills, you’ll research and write a paper on a chosen area. This research will help form and shape your own sense of practice. You’ll form companies and/or work individually on performance material which you’ll develop from an in-class ‘scratch’ showing through to a fully realised professional, public production in the annual AMATA Showcase, watched by a host of industry specialists. A professional development project will see you locate, frame and share your work across a range of platforms and networks, creating a bridge between undergraduate study and professional practice.

A professional development project will see you locate, frame and share your work across a range of platforms and networks, creating a bridge between undergraduate study and professional practice.

By the end of third year, you will:
o Be an independent and autonomous theater maker
o Have experience of a range of disciplines and excellent working knowledge of professional contexts, practices and opportunities.

Career opportunities

o Theatre companies – engaged with a range of types of theatre
o Freelance practitioners – solo performance makers etc
o Production contexts – receiving houses/companies/festivals etc
o Applied Theatre contexts – community contexts etc
o Theatre and education – teaching/facilitation
o Theatre and performance scholarship – postgraduate activities
o Broad theatre and cultural contexts; project management, creative facilitation
o Transferable skills – facilitation (creative and otherwise) project management, communication