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Directing at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS

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Course summary

Why study MA Directing at Goldsmiths This programme trains directors who are highly creative, critically and socially engaged, and skilled to work in a range of performance styles and practices. Develop your own creative and ethical working methods, and unique style, as a director.

  • Goldsmiths is famous for producing theatre practitioners who have agency and critical capacity that makes them fit for work in existing theatre, screen and arts industries as well as being able to create, innovate, and initiate change in their own right as artists.
  • MA Directing provides rigorous, diverse and socially aware director training for application in theatre and the arts sector in a 21st-century global context.
  • This programme offers imaginative, technical and intellectual training across a range of methods, approaches and related practitioner and critical discourses for use in classical, contemporary, devised, site specific, and new theatre writing productions.
  • You will receive an introduction to working in screen, audio and digital contexts and learn about performance theories, practices and methodologies in relation to your own performance practice and research as a director.
  • You'll have professional development learning opportunities and reflexive practice embedded through all three terms of the programme and a wide range of directors will visit to lecture and teach over the year, including alumni.
  • You will be introduced to a range of directorial methods, plays and styles of theatre from different cultures and periods in history.

Modules

Compulsory modules You will study the following compulsory modules: Approaches to Direction I (including LABS) Approaches to Direction II (including LABS) Devised Theatre Performance Theories & Practices I Performance Theories & Practices II The Director and the Text Independent Research Project Optional modules You will also have the opportunity to audit additional modules as part of your studies. These modules are optional and will not count towards your grade: Introduction to Screen Classical Acting Contemporary Acting Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year


Entry requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded ) an undergraduate degree of at least 2:1 in an arts or humanities area. In terms of professional and relevant work experience, some familiarity with performer training and past presentation opportunities is required. Further and holistic criteria for entry to the programme emphasises: the discipline in collaborating with others, artistic risk-taking in opening up to the pedagogic practices and a commitment to exploring the research contexts to acting independently, commensurate with the level of postgraduate learning. We also accept a wide range of international qualifications. If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 7.0 with a 7.0 in writing and no element lower than 6.5 to study this programme.


Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

For details of fees and funding please visit https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/fees-funding/ or the programme page on our website.
Directing at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS