BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre & Performance

Our BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Performance is an innovative degree program that combines a commitment to socially-engaged performance practice with contemporary theatre as well as the processes of making performance for and with specific audiences. We offer exceptional opportunities for work-based learning through our network of leading industry partners. Our practice-based curriculum enables our students to thrive as creative performance-makers and applied theatre practitioners. In our program, you will gain high-level skills in facilitation, devising, performance, and production enabling you to act across disciplinary fields of cultural work. You also develop strong academic foundations that equip you to question, analyze, and understand the cultural and ethical contexts you work in.

Year 1

• Applied Theatre Technique 1
• Collaboration 1
• Public Project 1
• Applied Theatre Technique 2
• Collaboration 2
• Professional Life 1 (Mental Wealth)

Year 2

• Socially Engaged Theatre 1
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration 1
• Public Project 2
• Socially Engaged Theatre 2
• Multidisciplinary Collaboration 2
• Professional Life 2 (Mental Wealth)

Year 3

• Professional Participatory Practice 1
• Final Project: Research and Development
• Public Project 3
• Professional Participatory Practice 2
• Final Project: Engagement and Impact
• Professional Life 3 (Mental Wealth)

Employability

Graduates who have studied on our BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Performance here at UEL have gained jobs in a wide variety of areas as teachers, actors and performance artists, arts administrators, theatre practitioners and facilitators, directors, and also those students who use their performing arts skills in applied settings, such as hospitals and prisons. We also have a number of students each year who go on postgraduate studies. We always keep in touch with our graduates and support them as they develop their next step and careers. Many students here have discovered that this is a course that gives you the ambition and confidence to successfully manage your career.