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Theatre with Creative Writing

Theatre with Creative Writing is a boundary-breaking course that provides students with a sound knowledge base in Theatre along with the skills and tools needed to develop into a writer. The programme capitalises on London’s outstanding theatre and performance resources and draws on London's rich writing, publishing and media cultures.

Programme Structure

The programme is designed to give students a deeper understanding of theatre and performance in a variety of cultures and historical periods, and across a wide range of forms. The Creative Writing section of the course is designed to develop practical writing skills and techniques, and to give students an insight into the process of writing.

Year 1

Year 1 provides an introduction to the study of theatre, performance and creative writing, combining both practical and theoretical approaches. Modules in Year 1 have a strong emphasis on the acquisition of practical (including writing) and research skills that students will use throughout their programme.

• Compulsory Modules:
  • Power Plays
  • Making Theatre and Performance
  • Introduction to Creative Writing
  • Performance, Acting, Text
  • Spectatorship: Time, Place, Performance

Year 2

In Year 2, students take the following three compulsory modules:

• Group Practical Project
• Creative Writing Prose
• Creative Writing Playwriting Students then choose two seminar-based modules and one practice-based module from a range of Theatre options that change each year. Modules may include:
  • Art and the Climate Crisis
  • Culture, Power and Performance
  • London Performance Now
  • Making Contemporary Theatre
  • Naturalism
  • Performance and Visual Culture in South Asia
  • Race and Racism in Performance
  • Theatre, Experiment and Revolution
  • Voice, Gender, Performance

Year 3

In Year 3, students choose one from:

• Written Research Project
• Creative Writing Dissertation Students then choose Creative Writing modules from a range of options that change each year. Modules may include:
  • Creative Writing and Performance
  • Writing About the Arts
  • Creative Writing Advanced Poetry: the Poetics of Translation
  • The Past Persists: Hauntings & Memory in Creative Writing Students also choose two seminar-based modules and one practice-based module from a range of Theatre options that change each year. Modules may include:
  • Culture, Performance and Globalisation
  • Live Art: Then and Now
  • Madness and Theatricality
  • Making Site-Specific Performance
  • Offstage London
  • Performance and Celebrity
  • Performance Composition
  • Showbusiness: Theatre and Capitalism
  • Staging Selfies: Performance and Social Media
  • Theatre and the Supernatural
  • Verbatim, Testimonial and Tribunal
  • Writing about the Arts

Entry Requirements

The typical A-Level offer for the Theatre with Creative Writing programme is Grades BBB at A-Level, which must include at least one arts, humanities or social sciences subject.

• A-Level: Grades BBB at A-Level. This must include at least one arts, humanities or social sciences subject.
• IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 30 points overall, including 5,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects. This must include at least one arts, humanities or social sciences subject.
• BTEC: See our detailed subject and grade requirements.
• Access HE: We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall, with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher.
• GCSE: Minimum five GCSE passes including English at grade C or 4.
• EPQ: Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification.
• Contextualised admissions: Our standard contextual offer: BCC. Our enhanced contextual offer: CCC.

Funding

UK students accepted onto this course are eligible to apply for tuition fee and maintenance loans from Student Finance England or other government bodies. Queen Mary offers a generous package of scholarships and bursaries, which currently benefits around 50 per cent of our undergraduates.

• Loans and grants: UK students accepted onto this course are eligible to apply for tuition fee and maintenance loans from Student Finance England or other government bodies.
• Scholarships and bursaries: Queen Mary offers a generous package of scholarships and bursaries, which currently benefits around 50 per cent of our undergraduates.

Careers

Theatre and related arts organisations, publishing, digital media, communications, print journalism, and the broadcast media are all popular choices for Theatre and Creative Writing students who want to use their communication skills. Others use their ability to think and write critically and persuasively to go into public relations, marketing, and advertising, including in the charity sector.

• Career support: You’ll have access to bespoke careers support during your degree, including access to experts in Theatre and Creative Writing through specific modules; School and Department-run careers and professional development workshops; extra-curricular experience with arts organisations; and advice about postgraduate study.
• Career paths: Theatre and related arts organisations, publishing, digital media, communications, print journalism, and the broadcast media are all popular choices for Theatre and Creative Writing students who want to use their communication skills.

About the School

The School of the Arts combines innovation, discovery and excellence in education and research in Drama, Film, Modern Languages, English & Comparative Literature, Creative Writing, Linguistics and Liberal Arts. We rank in the top 100 worldwide for Arts and Humanities (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024).

• Research excellence: We rank 1st for drama and in the top 10 for film in the UK for the quality of our research (REF2021).
• Collaborations: We regularly host prominent writers and performers and collaborate with leading organisations such as the V&A, the Barbican, the Live Art Development Agency and Shakespeare’s Globe.