BA/BA (Hons) Acting
for Stage and Screen
An actor can be called upon to
perform in a variety of venues,
media and styles and this course
will provide vocational and
industry-relevant training through
exploration, centred on acting
for stage and acting for screen,
and on the craft and practice of
performance.
The course will provide a distinctive and
complementary course of actor training
in the conservatoire tradition. It provides
all the training that you will require to
pursue a career in acting on stage or
screen. It will bring together the
fundamental skills of acting, character
work, voice and movement, and explore
the ways in which they are deployed and
synthesised to create character and
performance. It will identify the ways in
which these fundamental skills can be
modified and made appropriate to the
constraints of different media, narratives,
and places of performance. While the
emphasis will be on practice, you will
learn the theories of performance in a
classroom setting which will underpin
practical workshops. Students will be
required to interrogate their practice
rigorously and, in so doing, begin to
create an actor’s toolbox to which they
will add over the years. It will serve them
throughout their chosen career.
During both years there will be particular
focus on style, and on the deployment of
style appropriate to medium and genre.
Through intensive study of the similarities
and differences between the demands of
theatrical and screen acting, graduates
will have a critical understanding of how
they might adapt their technique to other
media and genres.
This course will enable you to convert an
appropriate existing qualification into a
degree and is equivalent to Years Three
and Four of a degree.
This two-year course
enables those with an
appropriate further
education qualification to
further their studies,
providing the training you
need to pursue a career in
acting for stage and screen
and obtain a degree.
The modules listed here are correct at
time of print (Feb 2018) but may differ
slightly to those offered in 2019. Please
check the website for any updates.
“Learning about a wealth of theatre
Structure
practitioners such as Uta Hagan and
You can opt to study for an ordinary
degree, completing one year of this
course or an honours degree,
completing two. You will complete a
range of modules each year as outlined.
Augusto Boal, their theories and how to
put them into practice, has been really
enriching for me and has given me a
greater variety of tools to approach
Teaching, learning and assessment
Please see the course entry on our
website (see URL on opposite page) for
full details of the learning, teaching and
assessment activities for this course.
Also check out the ‘How we teach and
how you’ll learn’ section on pages 8-11.
acting and character work.
I have had the chance to develop my
screen abilities, which
I previously had no experience in, and
this has been excellent in furthering my
development and understanding of text
and a whole new medium of acting.”
Year Three modules
Performance Skills I/ Interpreting Text/
Performance Technique I/ Performance
Skills II/ Performance Technique II/
Leadership in Creative Industries
Year Four modules
Performance Skills III/ Advanced
Performance Stage/ Advanced
Performance Screen/ Festival
Production/ Performance Skills for
Professional Practice
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Jamie Adams
BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen