Drama and Theatre Arts with Acting

UCAS code: W410

Here's what Goldsmiths, University of London says about its Drama and Theatre Arts with Acting course.

Why study BA Drama and Theatre Arts with Acting at Goldsmiths

Train as an actor and artist in your own right. Experience and enjoy a wide range of roles alongside opportunities to direct, write and produce.

• You'll learn to become an ‘actor-plus’: developing confidence as an actor while being given access to other skills such as directing, writing and producing.

• Studying with us will enable you to work in the theatre and screen industries and equip you to create, innovate, and initiate change, in your own right as an artist.

• Goldsmiths is famous for producing theatre practitioners who have agency and critical capacity.

• Your learning experience will benefit from recent developments and diversification in the models and methods of actor training and ethics that we have been exploring on BA Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, and now with an expanded practice in Acting skills.

• There will be classes in rehearsal ethics, characterisation and ensemble skills, movement, voice, stage, screen and audio genres, text-based and devised work.

• Our training assists you in achieving excellence and avoids erasing aspects of your identity in the process of training such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, regional accent or disability.

Year 1 In your first year, you will take the following compulsory modules: Ideas in Practice Character, Modes and Forms I Creative-Critical Project Character, Modes and Forms II Theatre Making 1 The Ensemble Reflexive Practitioner I: Self-Pedagogy

Year 2 In your second year, you will take the following compulsory modules: Classical Acting in a Contemporary World Questions of Performance Reflexive Practitioner II: Embodied Expression

You will also choose one module from each of the following pairs: Global Theatre Histories or The Goldsmiths Elective Theatre Making 2 or Participatory Arts: Contexts and Practice Screen and Audio Acting or Workshop Facilitation: Theory and Practice

Year 3 In your final year, you will take the following compulsory modules: Production in Process Theatre Making 3: Laboratory Theatre Making 3: Projects Directed Production Reflexive Practitioner III: Industry Preparation

You will also choose one of the following Performing Culture modules: Performing Culture: Modern Black, British and American Drama Performing Culture: Ecological Theatre Performing Culture: Theatre as a Learning Medium Performing Culture: Culture and its Doubles

*Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.

You will be assessed through a variety of methods, including essays, formal written examinations, practical projects, workshops, group performances, assessed rehearsals, group practice presentations as well as full productions, independent research projects, portfolios, and seminar presentations.