Explore drama and performance-making in professional theatre venues and a wide range of community and industry contexts.
With a strong focus on practice-based learning, you'll explore contemporary theatre and screen performance-making.
You'll build a portfolio of professional skills for working in the creative industries through collaboration with other creative students, specialist tutors, community partners, and industry professionals.
You'll develop specialist subject knowledge and an awareness of how you might fit into and lead contemporary trends. We’ll help you explore your talents and shape our Drama degree to fit your aspirations.
On the Drama and Theatre degree at Aberystwyth University, you will study what theatre has been in the past, examine what it is the present, and begin to imagine what it might be in the future. Innovatively combining theory and practice and teaching a range of transferable skills, this course will prepare you for work in the creative industries and beyond.
Rooted in Aberystwyth’s celebrated history of innovative and radical performance-making and taught by internationally recognised staff, this degree will help grow your skills as a creative thinker and an articulate practitioner.
Focusing on contemporary performance practice with a global outlook, through this degree you will encounter a range of performance styles and theatrical forms, from scripted stage plays to devised site-specific work, from Shakespearean drama to musical theatre and experiments in new media.
This is an exciting and mainly practical course combining practical exploration of styles and techniques in acting with related written assignments.
Key Units include:
- Introduction to Performance
- Communicating With an Audience
- Staging a Performance
- Production Skills and Practice, and more!
Students often continue to develop their skills and knowledge of drama at university or drama school. This can lead to careers in the performing arts industry (both on and off stage), but also in a wide range of other areas where artistic understanding and communication skills are important.
Surround yourself with internationally acclaimed artists, world class music practitioners, a skilled technical team and expert teachers
The course is a two year, full-time vocational course, equivalent to 3 A Levels.
You will work on the following practical projects:
This course is free to those aged under 19 years old.
Most people aged 19 years and over can qualify for free course fees and there are grants and bursaries you can apply for to help cover the costs of coming to college, depending on your circumstances.
