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Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS

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2024 - 2025
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22Jun
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Course summary

The BA in Drama and Theatre Arts is designed to foster creative, radical theatre-makers and thinkers. It is adventurous in form, international in scope and hands-on in practice. The Complete Theatre Maker

  • This degree supports you to become the complete theatre maker. At the heart of the programme is a balanced integration of theory and practice. Knowledge gained through making and doing adds to your conceptual understanding, while the insights gained in writing about theatre and society inform the choices you make in your practice-based work.
  • Tutored by our diverse and talented team, you will develop technical skills in acting, directing, writing, sound, lighting, scenography, and costume. Bringing these skills together, you will learn how to collaborate and operate in companies, ready to take your own show on the road.
  • You will be introduced to a wide range of theatre thinkers, and explore the history and cultural diversity of performance. You will develop a complex understanding of what it means to make theatre in an increasingly global 21st-century society. And with London’s rich theatre culture on your doorstep, you can draw on an exciting range of contemporary practice to inform your thinking and making.
Groundbreaking and Diverse
  • The BA Drama and Theatre Arts is a radical and innovative degree. The curriculum is responsive to the global reach of our teaching staff, including expertise in African, American, Francophone, Japanese, and South Asian performance, as well as British, European, and Russian theatre traditions. We prepare theatre-makers who are socially, culturally, and politically engaged.
  • The degree explores what it means to perform in contemporary culture, mobilising a range of theatre and performance practices from the interpretation of play texts to devised ensemble work and the possibilities opened up by political protest, live art, and the avant-garde.
  • Students on this programme typically develop into bold and versatile creatives. They are practically adept and imaginative, critically agile, able to form companies and to manage the business of production. Our bespoke Personal and Professional Development package combines career support with taught elements and introduces you to our dynamic alumni network, ready to take on the world.
  • This degree will help you develop the skills you need to become a successful theatre maker.

Modules

Year 1- In the first year you study the following compulsory modules: Critical Dialogues A Critical Dialogues B Introduction to Dramaturgy Scenography Theatre Making 1 Processes of Performance: Encounters with Space The Ensemble Year 2 - in the second year you take three compulsory modules: Theatre Making 2 Modernisms and Postmodernity A The Goldsmiths Elective You'll choose one module from the theme of Modernisms and Postmodernity B. Bertolt Brecht and Political Theatre Postcolonial Theatre Modernisms and Postmodernity B: Activism and the Theatrical Avant Garde Samuel Beckett: Performance, Writing and Philosophy Women, Feminism & Playwrighting Global Theatre Histories You'll also choose 1 or 2 modules from the theme of Global Theatre Histories. These modules change from year to year, and recent examples include: French Theatre African Theatre Classical Greek Theatre Polish Theatre Shakespeare and the Early Modern American Theatre in the Mid 20th Century Russian Theatre Post-War British Theatre Questions of Performance You will also choose 2 optional modules from the theme of Questions of Performance. Module options change from year to year, and recent examples have included: QoP: Character I QoP: Self QoP: Gendered Performance QoP: Emotion QoP: Voice/ Text Year 3 In your final year, you'll take the following compulsory modules: Culture and Performance: Critical Cultural Theory Undependent Research Project Research Methodologies You also choose optional modules across the following themes. Culture and Performance B You choose 1 optional module from the theme of Culture and Performance B. Options change from year to year, and recent examples have included: Culture and Performance B: Art and Japan Culture and Performance B: Theatre as a Learning Medium Culture and Performance B: Modern Black, British and American Drama Culture and Performance B: Ecological Theatre Theatre Making 3 You'll also choose 2 optional modules from the theme of Theatre Making 3. Available modules change from year to year, and recent examples have included: TM3: Devised Performance TM3: Live Art/ Performance Art TM3: Acting and Solo Performance Work placement 3rd Year students may also take an optional Work Placement module Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.

Assessment method

You will be assessed by a range of methods depending on your module choices. These include coursework assignments such as essays, portfolios, research statements and exams, as well as practical assignments such as practice-based presentations and oral presentations, and in your third year, a 10,000-word dissertation, and participation in a public performance festival.

How to apply

31Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
W440
Institution code:
G56
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus code:
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Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1
  • Year 2

Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)

120 credits at Level 4 and a 2:1 average in a comparable programme, and meet the standard qualification requirements for entry to Year 1 of the programme.

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

You must be able to express a well-informed interest in theatre and performance theory and practice. While drama and theatre studies would be an advantage, this is not necessarily essential as we are also interested in those with other subjects or complementary experience. Applicants with A-levels in an arts and humanities subject such as English, history, languages, philosophy and sociology are welcomed. The degree doesn't aim to provide a vocational training in acting, but rather the opportunity to engage in a broad creative and critical study, exploring the possibilities of theatre making in a wide historical and cultural context to provide transferable skills for a richly diverse array of career choices. This is why we're not looking for performing skills alone but for a range of intellectual, creative, critical and inquisitive qualities when we select candidates for a place.

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6With a 6.0 in writing and no element lower than 5.5

Student Outcomes

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Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
100%
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Fees and funding

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Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London - UCAS