Program Overview

BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts with Acting

Overview

Train as an actor and artist in your own right. Experience and enjoy a wide range of roles alongside opportunities to direct, write and produce.

Why Study BA Drama and Theatre Arts with Acting at Goldsmiths

• You'll learn to become an ‘actor-plus’: developing confidence as an actor while being given access to other skills such as directing, writing and producing.
• Studying with us will enable you to work in the theatre and screen industries and equip you to create, innovate, and initiate change, in your own right as an artist.
• Goldsmiths is famous for producing theatre practitioners who have agency and critical capacity.
• Your learning experience will benefit from recent developments and diversification in the models and methods of actor training and ethics that we have been exploring on BA Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths, and now with an expanded practice in Acting skills.
• There will be classes in rehearsal ethics, characterisation and ensemble skills, movement, voice, stage, screen and audio genres, text-based and devised work.
• Our training assists you in achieving excellence and avoids erasing aspects of your identity in the process of training such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, regional accent or disability.

Entry Requirements

• A-level: BBB
• BTEC: DDM
• IB: 33 points overall with Three HL subjects at 655
• UAL Extended Diploma: Merit overall
• Access: Pass with 45 Level 3 credits including 30 Distinctions and a number of merits/passes in subject-specific modules
• Scottish qualifications: BBBBC (Higher) or BBC (Advanced Higher)
• European Baccalaureate: 75%
• Irish Leaving Certificate: H2 H2 H2 H2

Additional Requirements

• Your qualifications must include a minimum Grade B in English Literature, English Language and Literature, Drama or Theatre Studies, or another humanities discipline. General Studies is not accepted as one of the three A-levels.

Alternative Qualifications and Experience

• We welcome students with a range of educational experiences. If you believe you may not meet the standard qualification requirements we would still encourage you to apply because we consider all aspects of your application when making a decision.

International Qualifications

• We also accept a wide range of international qualifications. Find out more about the qualifications we accept from around the world.

English Language Requirements

• If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification of 6.0 with a 6.0 in writing and no element lower than 5.5 to study this programme.

Fees and Funding

• Home - full-time: £9535
• International - full-time: £21200

Additional Costs

• In addition to your tuition fees, you will be responsible for meeting standard costs associated with your study.

Facilities

• The Department of Theatre and Performance delivers teaching in five theatre studios and houses the technically-supported George Wood Theatre. Further facilities include a voice recording booth, media editing suite, scenographic workshop areas and a costume design studio.

Staff

• Natalie Katsou, Associate Lecturer

Similar Programmes

• BA (Hons) Drama & Theatre Arts with Performance Making and Collaborative Practice
• BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts
• BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts with Design and Technical Practice
• BA (Hons) Drama: Musical Theatre

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Programme Structure

• Year 1:
  • Ideas in Practice (15 credits)
  • Character, Modes and Forms I (15 credits)
  • Creative-Critical Project (15 credits)
  • Character, Modes and Forms II (15 credits)
  • Theatre Making 1 (30 credits)
  • The Ensemble (15 credits)
  • Reflexive Practitioner I: Self-Pedagogy (15 credits)
• Year 2:
  • Classical Acting in a Contemporary World (15 credits)
  • Performance in Conflict (15 credits)
  • The Goldsmiths Elective (15 credits)
  • Reflexive Practitioner II: Embodied Expression (15 credits)
  • Questions of Performance: Identity (15 credits) or Questions of Performance: Sensation (15 credits)
  • Theatre Making 2 (30 credits) or Participatory Arts: Contexts and Practice (30 credits)
  • Screen and Audio Acting (15 credits) or Workshop Facilitation: Theory and Practice (15 credits)
• Year 3:
  • Production in Process (15 credits)
  • Theatre Making 3: Laboratory (15 credits)
  • Theatre Making 3: Projects (30 credits)
  • Directed Production (30 credits)
  • Reflexive Practitioner III: Industry Preparation (15 credits)
  • Performing Culture: Modern Black, British and American Drama (15 credits) or Performing Culture: Ecological Theatre (15 credits) or Performing Culture: Theatre as a Learning Medium (15 credits) or Performing Culture: Culture and its Doubles (15 credits)

Teaching Style

• You will be taught on campus through face-to-face teaching. The department believes in maintaining a range of learning contexts that facilitate a wide variety of modes of learning and teaching at all levels including, lectures, seminars (with group research and presentations), practical sessions, workshops, supervised, student-led and/ or independent rehearsals, opportunities for guided and peer-assisted learning especially in production development, and visits to professional theatres.

Assessment

• You will be assessed through a variety of methods, including essays, formal written examinations, practical projects, workshops, group performances, assessed rehearsals, group practice presentations as well as full productions, independent research projects, portfolios, and seminar presentations.
• Continuous assessment is used throughout the year to encourage individual progression and to provide instances of feedback during a creative process rather than at the end, in keeping with the department’s view of the study of theatre as process. Formative assessment (which does not form part of your overall degree grade) appears where appropriate in some studio-based and seminar-style modules.