Acting for Contemporary Theatre
University of Chichester
UCAS Code: 2D46 | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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A level
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Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
This BA (Hons) Acting for Contemporary Theatre degree is a highly practical programme which will develop your skills, ideas and experiences to prepare you for your career in the theatre industries. Explore narrative, physical and visual theatre, and text and cultural identity throughout your degree. You will develop your performance skills and explore topics including performance, production, critical and cultural studies, business management and applied arts practice.
On this course you will:
Learn to apply your business knowledge to the theatre industry, and have the option to undertakes placement with a range of theatres. Benefit from our professional industry partnerships throughout your studies. Access placement opportunities including roles at The Chichester Festival Theatre, Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Festival and more. You will work to produce and perform in original work and develop high-quality professional contacts that prepare you for a demanding, diverse and flexible career in the professional theatre industry.
You will become a member of a shared creative community where cultural identity, experimentation and research are central to making live and recorded theatre. You will be able to take part in casting opportunities, auditions, and talks with industry professionals.
Modules
Year One:
In your first year, you will focus on a wide range of working practices, as you begin to develop core skills in voice, movement, and devising. You will also begin your critical and theoretical study designed to widen cultural reflection on the theatre space, as you create performances in four project projects: Narrative, Physical and Visual Theatre, Text and Deconstruction and Cultural Identity.
Year Two:
Your second year is focused on two major performance projects – one in each semester. The first involves writing and developing text for performance; the second involves exploring post-structural notions of performance. You can also select options in complimentary practices: clowning, script writing, body-based performance, site-based performance, and theatre-in-education. Your critical and cultural studies continue through an examination of romanticism and post-modernism.
Year Three:
In your final year, you will develop your own portfolio of theatre practice through a range of exciting performance options: Adaptation and Direction, Solo Performance, Experimental Workshop Performance, Performance Writing, New Technology and Performance and Documentation. All students create a major production in small performance companies and produce a written dissertation. Key careers development is provided through a range of modules: Company Management, Applied Arts and Work Placement.
Assessment methods
You will be assessed through a range of assignments including practical and performance contexts. These assessments will include group and individual performances, directing exercises, presentations, creative installations, and essays.
During your degree you will be involved in at least twelve examined performances, including three major productions, over the three years. There are no formal exams.
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