The BA (Hons) Dance and Drama degree at Edinburgh College is an intensive industry training course delivered by Kingston University. Challenge your potential as you immerse yourself in the art of theatre and performance through a range of techniques. This is a university-level course that will ensure you are prepared to an industry standard to progress into a career as a portfolio artist.

You will develop a range of transferable skills to equip you for the demands of a competitive world. Actors and performers have a massive influence on society and this course aims to show you how you can become a part of that influence. You will critically engage in industry practices and learn how to take a simple performance idea and bring it to life. Throughout the course, you will gain essential experience in professional environments and make crucial connections with industry professionals.

Performing Arts Studio Scotland (PASS) has a range of exceptional professional facilities including the Pass studio theatre as well as dance, acting and aerial studios. Many of the BA Performances take place in external venues such as Festival Theatre Studio, Traverse Theatre and Assembly Roxy.

HND Musical Theatre is a diverse course designed to push you towards your performing potential. This multi-faceted course will test your skills in acting, singing and dancing with a view to progressing to a career in the exciting industry of musical theatre.

Performing Arts Studio Scotland (PASS) has a range of exceptional professional facilities including the Pass studio theatre as well as dance, acting and aerial studios

You will gain essential experience through practical and theoretical studies, which include varied acting techniques, vocal training using Estill and other practices, jazz, tap dance, musical theatre repertoire, and production. Opportunities to visit theatres and take part in industry-run workshops will be available through PASS industry connections. As part of this course, you will participate in exciting projects and musical theatre productions.

Upon completion, you will be qualified for further study of musical theatre at a university level. This course also offers exciting opportunities for collaboration with other students at Edinburgh College including make-up artists, costume designers and technical theatre designers. You will meet previous PASS students who have become theatre professionals at our inspiring PASS It On sessions throughout the year.

You will leave this course having learned how to take a simple idea, and expand and explore it until becomes a final product; bringing it to life in musical form.

This degree course is a full-time industry-focused actor-training.

There will be an emphasis on fostering the skills needed to create your own work – such as screenwriting, editing and producing.

A key focus of the programme is screen acting – with 50% of the curriculum devoted to this area of the industry.

At Collective we champion groups who have traditionally been underrepresented within the Performing Arts – specifically in terms of ethnicity, disability and class.

** This course is currently ‘subject to validation’ by Queen Margaret University. Edinburgh.

An intensive, condensed course for graduates of any discipline or those with some acting experience. The minimum age is 21 and there is no upper age limit.

Postgraduate students begin individual programmes relating to their needs in voice, movement and auditioning, as well as career-related studies, at an early stage in the course.

The course also includes comprehensive career guidance and opportunities to show your work to agents and casting directors through a season of productions and an end of term showcase in London’s West End.

This course will help you pursue your interests and skills in a range of practical and theory drama elements including:

AS Unit 1: Theatre Workshop (24% of qualification)

A2 Unit 3: Text in Action (36% of qualification)

A2 Unit 4: Text in Performance (24% of qualification)

Entry Requirements
Grade B in GCSE English. A keen interest in performing and dramatic arts.

The AS and A2 course is taught at the Arts centre at the college's Gorseinon campus and is based on 4.5 hours of teaching throughout the academic year.

Each learner is assessed by the tutors and through external moderation and examination by external examiners of the WJEC.

Learners studying A Level Drama have progressed onto studying at leading drama colleges such as RADA, LAMDA , Bristol Old Vic and The Central School of Speech and Drama. Many learners go on to study drama at university.

Let your career take centre stage as you gain professional musical theatre skills and industry experience. You’ll be given the opportunity to develop sector-specific knowledge within contemporary and jazz dance styles, singing and vocal techniques alongside exploring acting skills. With all these combined, you will apply them to a variation of musicals, performing in different spaces throughout the year and executing your final performance in the Chroma-Q Theatre.

You will focus on various styles and techniques, choreograph performance work and collaborate with other disciplines, all of which will prepare you for the working world or progression onto level 3.

You will learn how to

- Develop skills in Dance styles and techniques with Musical Theatre
- Explore professional development needs
- Develop and create a collaborative performance
- Present an audition portfolio
- Apply your skills to a performance

Cost for adults (aged 19 and over)*: £2,111 plus exam fee of £114

MA Performance: Politics and Social Justice at Wimbledon College of Arts explores contemporary theatre and performance as practices of cultural critique, social protest and political intervention.

MA Performance: Politics and Social Justice focuses on cultural politics and critical aesthetics in contemporary performance. The course emphasises socially and politically engaged practices and methods of enquiry and encourages creative outcomes that tackle social justice issues.

Your approach to performance, politics, and social justice should be a practical one. A studio-based learning environment will enable you to focus on making performance.

The course wants you to:

- think critically about the cultural politics of your performance-making
- place your work in the context of global and local political challenges
- look at how your work addresses social, racial and climate justice
- re-imagine the possibilities of theatre and performance.
Wimbledon aims to provide fertile ground for the formation of new socially and politically engaged performance practices and collectives. The course will encourage you to become a confident artist, activist, and researcher.

Prove that you’re a class act with this programme. You will develop the vocal and physical skills needed to shine on stage and on screen. You’ll explore acting styles such as naturalism, epic, surrealism and physical theatre through scripted and devised projects. We support you in your development to gain the skills needed to succeed in the industry.

- Acting skills development
- Scripted and devised performance
- Screen acting and script writing
- Community theatre
- Final major project
- The performing arts industry
- Self promotion and networking

The two-term L2 Certificate in Acting & Drama focuses on the further development of performance skills. You will work on technique and creative processes for oral storytelling, audition monologues and a scene from a modern play. This is an accredited course, meaning upon successful completion you will gain a L2 Certificate in Performance Skills. The course runs on-site all-day Wednesday. You will be expected to do independent learning between weekly sessions.

MA Performance: Theatre Making at Wimbledon College of Arts invites you to re-imagine the possibilities of theatre and performance and expand the horizons of your practice.

MA Performance: Theatre Making will enable you to develop your creative and critical practice. It will encourage you to become a confident and articulate theatre maker and researcher.

Performance at Wimbledon is approached through questions of politics and ethics as well as aesthetics and practice. The course asks you to examine them through practical investigation and experimentation in a studio context.

You will think critically about your theatre making. You will want to place it in the context of contemporary performance and visual culture.

The course focuses on:

- Theatre-making as an integrated, multi-disciplinary practice. Combining, for example, writing, design, acting and dramaturgy.
- Developing innovative compositional strategies for performance-making as a studio-based, embodied and material practice.
- The creation of post-dramatic and politically engaged performance.
- Collaboration.