Acting

Perfect your acting skills in a creative and caring community
Our practical and performance-based BA (Hons) Acting course helps turn natural talent into a career and make dreams of performing on stage or screen a reality.

Explore a range of key performance topics, including:

• Acting technique

• Acting for camera

• Showreel and agent showcase

• Scene study

• Vocal skills and singing

• Movement and physicality

• Stage combat

• Playwrighting

• Solo performance

• Classical theatre

Produce your own work
You will work to produce and perform in original work, and develop high-quality professional contacts that prepare you for a demanding, diverse and flexible career in the professional theatre industry.

Demonstrate your talents to agents and casting directors
Our annual Acting Showcase events allow our final year students to display their abilities to industry professionals and help them find agents.

Creative and collaborative community
You will become a member of a shared creative community where cultural identity, experimentation and research are central to making live and recorded theatre. You will be able to take part in casting opportunities, auditions and talks with industry professionals.

This course runs in parallel to BA (Hons) Acting for Contemporary Theatre, so you will work with and perform with other students throughout your degree.

Spotlight accredited
Our partnership with Spotlight offers you discounted graduate membership to largest casting resource in the United Kingdom, inclusion in a dedicated ‘graduate’ section of their website, access to their dedicated one-to-one career advice sessions and much more.

On this course you will:

• Develop your acting skills.

• Perform and produce original work throughout your studies.

• Be directed by a professional director.

• Access placement opportunities including roles at the Chichester Festival Theatre, Edinburgh Festival and more.

• Produce a showreel and perform in an industry showcase.

• Learn from and network with industry professionals.

Year One: Foundations
Building core skills in acting
Discovering new techniques
Freeing the actor.

Year Two: Specialism
Deepening core skills
Expanding actor’s toolkit
Two staff-led productions.

Year Three: Independence
Applying the craft in the actor across four practical projects; professional showreel, solo performance, directed play and devised production.
Focussed professional development including agent showcase and spotlight.

You will be assessed through a range of assignments including practical and performance contexts. These assessments will include group and individual performances, directing exercises, presentations, creative installations, and essays.

During your degree you will be involved in at least twelve examined performances, including three major productions, over the three years. There are no formal exams.