Program Overview

BA (Hons) Drama and Theatre Arts with Design and Technical Practice

Overview

This programme is for theatre artists who want to design and deliver innovative work through technical practice, creative vision, and technological confidence.

Why Study BA Drama and Theatre Arts with Design and Technical Practice at Goldsmiths?

• Goldsmiths is famous for producing theatre practitioners who have agency and critical capacity. Our design and technician staff team are artists, innovators, and researchers in their own right.
• Studying with us makes you ready for work in the existing theatre and screen industries, but we also equip you to create, innovate, and initiate change, in your own right as technicians and artists.
• You'll take classes in ensemble performance, scenography, theatre-making, plus small-group coaching with a technical specialist in lighting, sound design, set, scenography and objects, stage management, and costume design and production.
• Your learning experience will benefit from a more recent appreciation and diversification of what design and technical practice can do for theatre and creative industry events more generally.
• Our training assists you to achieve excellence in a nurturing and respectful environment.

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

• Goldsmiths Theatre and Performance Department delivers teaching in 5 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.

Teaching Style

• 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.

Assessment

• 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.

Programme Structure

• Year 1
• Ideas in Practice (15 credits)
• Introduction to Dramaturgy (15 credits)
• Practitioner in Context I: Technical Skills (15 credits)
• Scenography (15 credits)
• Theatre Making 1 (30 credits)
• The Ensemble (15 credits)
• Creative-Critical Project (15 credits)

2

• Questions of Performance: Identity (15 credits)
• Questions of Performance: Sensation (15 credits)
• Technical Theatre and Design Case Study (15 credits)
• Theatre Making 2 (30 credits)
• Practitioner in Context II: Departmental Placement (30 credits)
• Global Theatre Histories (15 credits) or The Goldsmiths Elective (15 credits) or Modernisms and Postmodernity A (15 credits)

3

• Theatre Making 3: Laboratory (15 credits)
• Theatre Making 3: Projects (30 credits)
• Practitioner in Context III: Industry Preparation and Placement (30 credits)
• Independent Research Project (30 credits)
• Research Methodologies (15 credits)

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