Acting Classical and Contemporary Text (Taught)

The application deadline for this programme is 31st March 2027.
Please note, there will be multiple audition rounds for this course, please visit our website for specific information. Round one auditions will take place via Audition recordings only which will need to be completed via our Acceptd platform by the application deadline date.

MA Acting Classical and Contemporary Text (CCT) is a course for actors who find themselves looking beyond traditional and contemporary artistic approaches as they seek to broaden and deepen their individual practice. Individuality is at the core of this postgraduate programme. We work with artists who use their social, moral, and ethical values to animate their practice. This is a course where you will have agency over your own work and be responsible for driving your learning and creativity forward.

It is this agency which makes the programme different from undergraduate study. With support from the staff team, you will write your own learning outcomes, determine your trajectory and ultimately, we hope, you will flourish as both a learner and a creative practitioner.

It’s an intense programme where actors and directors work together, creating a dynamic community rooted in creative collaboration. Highlights include developing original digital work for the On the Verge festival, performing or directing contemporary performance working in proto-professional ensembles and completing a month’s residency at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London.

At the end of this residency, after undertaking classes with the educational team at the Globe, you will perform or direct sharings on the mainstage of Shakespeare’s Globe, a unique and iconic playing space.

If this narrative excites or inspires you, please get in touch with us to discuss how you can begin your artistic journey with us.

Important Audition Information
Please note, there will be two audition rounds for this programme, please visit our website for specific information. All first-round auditions are assessed from a submitted recording via our Acceptd platform, regardless of which audition location / type of audition you choose. All round one audition recordings must be received by the deadline of the 31st of March. The only exception to this is for applicants attending our overseas auditions. Your audition location should relate to your preferred recall audition should you be successful in progressing through from the first round.

Our international audition locations are still being confirmed, applicants attending these auditions will not be required to submit a recording for the first round. Information will be updated when available, please also check the website for details.

Course Modules

Classical and Contemporary Text Masters has two strands – acting and directing – with students working together as an ensemble throughout the year.

Each term, you will primarily engage in a single module that will run for the term’s duration. In addition, there is a year-long module concerned with your professional practice and development that runs across your studies. Through this module, you will have the opportunity to engage with the performing arts industry in a variety of ways beyond the programme’s performance opportunities. This engagement might include:

• Mock castings with directors or casting directors

• Self-tape workshops

• Mock agent meetings

• Mock interviews with industry professionals

• Masterclasses on a variety of areas of professional practice

Through these and other activities (along with all other content on the programme), you will be expected to consider and develop your relationships to and with the profession.

For a detailed breakdown of what modules are covered across each term, please see our website.

https://www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/ma-mfa-acting-directing-classical-and-contemporary-text/#programme-structure

Please see our website for more information about our course.