Develop your voice as an artist, your skill as a theatre-maker, your critical thinking and your industry and business knowledge by joining our MA Theatre Making. Firmly embedded in Kent’s thriving creative landscape, this course will prepare you for making theatre and performance in, and in response to, the world today.

The MA Theatre Making is intended for graduates from theatre and performing arts degrees and other related subjects, as well as emerging theatre artists who want to further pursue their experimentation with advanced theatre-making practices as an individual and/or company.

The challenging interdisciplinary curriculum will help you develop skills in a range of approaches to making performance, drawing on techniques from directing, devising, ensemble performance and performance art.

You will test ideas and various creative roles through intensive laboratory projects; conceive, develop and manage a full-scale creative project at an advanced level; and engage in critical discourse through academic study to support your work as a ‘thinking practitioner’.

The course also equips you with the ability to document and reflect on your practice, provides you with industry knowledge such as fundraising strategies and marketing, and gives you the opportunity to develop a portfolio with which to launch into professional artistic work.

This qualification forms part of a complete programme which will help to develop the necessary skills and knowledge required to succeed in the wider world of work.

Training will take place in our well-equipped, modern salons, with instruction from our team of highly skilled, qualified and supportive tutors.

If you want a career working with hair, make-up and special effects in the entertainment industry this course is for you.

You will gain a wealth of practical skills in hair and make-up, and will work on live projects such as the Pantomime and other in-college theatre performances, create gruesome creatures for a live action horror maze and casualty scenes for live exhibitions.

In the second year you will learn more advanced technical skills including professional production planning and you will learn how to establish yourself as a self-employed make-up artist, giving you the business knowledge and skills to promote yourself in the industry. This exciting career-led course covers the application of specialised make-up and synthetic hair for theatrical and media purposes. You will put the workshop skills you learn into practice and document your progress in sketch books to document evidence in order to complete the units on this course.

Full-time students aged 16-18 will follow a study programme at City College which includes:

• The main subject qualification
• Work experience which is effective, relevant, and includes careers fairs, site visits, guest speakers and introduces you to the expectations of the real demands of work English and maths where students have not yet achieved GCSE grade 4 or above in these subjects
• Additional activities such as tutorials and work-related learning, to help further develop the personal skills relevant to your progression goals
• These four elements should combine to provide stretch and challenge to prepare you for progression to employment or further study.
• UCAS Tariff – Earn up to 168 UCAS points for university entry

Across the two years of this course you will learn the following:

• Professional practice for backstage hair and make-up artists
• Critical and contextual research
• Engaging with an audience through hair and make-up design
• Application of theatrical and media make-up and hair for performance (stage, TV, film, fashion)
• Hair styling and wig fitting for performers
• Fantasy and structural hair
• Special effects make-up
• Moulding and applying prosthetics
• Period make-up and hair design
• Body art and tattoo covering
• Professional production planning

If you successfully complete the first year of study you will gain a Level 3 Diploma qualification.

In order to progress to the second year you will need to pass the first year of study.

Students will have access to our purpose-built make-up studio as well as backstage areas when working on live shows.