Acting and Performance

On this exciting course you'll develop key professional acting skills, gain theoretical knowledge of stage and screen acting (with no formal exams), and build a performance portfolio to showcase your talents in a supportive learning environment. You'll learn essential acting techniques for stage and screen, as well as body and voice skills, approaches to the history of performance, and theories of performance, ensuring you are confident working across stage, screen and emerging media.

You'll be able to perform in film projects and theatre productions in public venues. You'll also develop the capacity to devise new work, collaborate effectively, and engage critically with historical and contemporary performance practices - all while learning from an experienced, welcoming, and helpful teaching team who have been professionally engaged in stage and screen acting and directing.

Thanks to the course team's links with industry, you’ll have the chance to gain practical experience working with local institutions on live briefs. Our industry links can create exciting partnerships with professionals - guest tutors include actors, directors, and career guidance professionals who will share their unique insights.

In the final year, you can participate in an industry-standard performance showcase in London, providing the perfect opportunity to present yourself to the industry and develop professional networks that will help launch your career in the performing arts. Our showcase is listed on the Spotlight Performance Calendar, making it visible to casting directors and agents.

You'll also have the opportunity to participate in extra-curricular student-directed film projects, helping to develop your screen acting skills and provide additional footage that could be added to your showreel.

Spotlight, the leading casting platform, and Equity, the actor’s union, worked together to create guidelines for drama school and university courses. Our course has been recognised as fulfilling these guidelines allowing our third-year students to become both Spotlight Graduate members and obtain Equity’s full membership

Who is this course for?
Solent’s Acting and Performance degree is ideally suited to students with a passion for performing arts and a desire to work in a performance related area. Strong communication and team building skills make our students highly desirable for employers across of range of industries. Applicants ideally will have some previous experience and/or qualifications in drama and will be required to present an audition.

What does this course lead to?
The nature of this degree prepares students for a career in the performing arts by producing adaptable, reflective practitioners capable of shaping and responding to current and future performance landscapes. Our alumni have gone on to postgraduate studies, teaching, cruise ship entertaining, theatre and/or screen acting, theatre in education, children’s’ entertaining, and more.

YEAR ONE
CORE MODULES

Curtain Up
The Actor's Technical Toolkit
Improvise and Devise
Performing in Digital Media

YEAR TWO
CORE MODULES

Period Acting for Stage and Screen
The Big Play
Acting in the Community

OPTIONAL MODULES - Please note: Not all optional modules are guaranteed to run each year.

Directing
Finding Your Voice
Performing Arts Education

FINAL YEAR

Industry Ready
Theatre Maker Festival: Professional Partnership
Innovation Lab
That's Entertainment

You may be assessed at the end of each block by:
Individual performances
Group performances
Portfolios
Workshops
Group presentations
Devising
Assignments
Individual presentations
Log books
As part of this course, you will study one module at a time, giving you the chance to build a deeper understanding and see the results of your hard work more quickly. With regular assessments and feedback, rather than exams all at once, you’ll also benefit from improved focus, and a more manageable workload.