Course summary
Our intensive and highly practical MA will enable you to develop and enhance your acting skills to a professional level. Guided by our world-class teaching team you will become part of a creative and collaborative community. You will hone and develop your acting technique by using a variety of practitioner approaches and techniques across stage, screen, movement, and voice. To extend your range of technical performance skills you will experiment with contemporary stage and screen texts and classical texts, ranging from the Greeks to Shakespeare. Collaborating with leading industry professionals, you will generate an original live studio show and a main house production, plus a digital showcase and industry events in London and Manchester. A final practical research project allows you to interrogate and focus upon an area or aspect of the creative industries to deepen your knowledge and engagement as you embark upon your professional career.
Assessment method
Teaching is typically divided into technical and practical skills blocks, as well as intensive rehearsal periods. You are expected to acquire vital performance skills and knowledge in challenging acting approaches, taking on board 20th century techniques and contemporary company practices. You gain dramaturgical understanding of the construct and creation of performances, fully armed to apply this creatively in your professional rehearsal periods. Rehearsals emulate industry scenarios, ensuring your practice and company work ethics are honed to industry standards, improving employability and interpersonal, collaborative proficiency.
Entry requirements
2.1 degree in a relevant discipline or significant practical experience such as professional work.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
| Channel Islands | £14500 | Whole course |
| Republic of Ireland | £14500 | Whole course |
| EU | £19800 | Whole course |
| England | £14500 | Whole course |
| Northern Ireland | £14500 | Whole course |
| Scotland | £14500 | Whole course |
| Wales | £14500 | Whole course |
| International | £19800 | Whole course |
Additional fee information
No additional fees or cost information has been supplied for this course, please contact the provider directly.
Provider information
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Mount Street
Liverpool
L1 9HF