BA (Hons) Acting

Overview

Perfect your performance skills alongside theoretical learning

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.

Go beyond acting training

You will train to be a versatile, proactive, and flexible performer, as well as study a range of theoretical and critical topics around key acting styles, contexts, and cultures throughout history.

Academically, you will discover critical and cultural studies and investigate topics including modernism, romanticism, and post-modernism.

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.

Previous cohorts have been highly successful in finding representation, many of which found theirs through participation in the end of year showcase.

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.

On this course you will:

• Develop your acting skills and academic understanding of theatre cultures and contexts.
• Perform and produce original work throughout your studies.
• Access placement opportunities including roles at The Chichester Festival Theatre, Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Festival and more.
• Have the opportunity to study motion capture, voice work, and showcasing.
• Learn from and network with industry professionals.

Perfect your performance skills

This BA (Hons) Acting degree is a practical and performance-based course. You will train to be a versatile, proactive and flexible performer as you explore topics including acting, screen acting, scene study, voice, singing, movement, stage combat, creative writing, technical production and stage management, solo performance and classical theatre. 

You will develop your acting and creative skills with performances and creative projects. 50% of the course syllabus involves acting skills training that leads to professionally directed productions. You will work with established text and develop understanding of key acting styles and contexts.

Alongside your performance skills you will develop your knowledge of narrative, physical theatre, verbatim theatre and cultural identity, clowning, Shakespeare and childrens theatre, and have opportunities to study motion capture, voice work and showcasing. Academically you will discover critical and cultural studies and investigate topics including modernism, romaniticism and post modernism.

You will become a member of a shared creative community where cultural identity, experimentation and research are central to making live and recorded theatre. This course focuses on critical thinking as and professional development well as performance craft and technique. You will be able to take part in casting opportunities, auditions, and talks with industry professionals. 

Across all three years, you are engaged in a developed vocational programme, designed to develop significant skills, ideas and experiences relevant to creative performance careers.

You will work to produce and perform in original work and develop highly relevant professional contacts that prepare you for the demanding, diverse and flexible careers in the professional theatre. This course runs in parallel to BA (Hons) Theatre, so you will work with and perform with other students throughout your degree.

All of of staff are specialists in their areas of teaching and still active members of the acting industry.

You can apply for up to five different degree courses at up to five different institutions through UCAS (the national Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Your application is sent to all five universities at the same time.

Each course has a UCAS code that you will find on our course pages or in our prospectus. You will need to know the UCAS code for the course you want to apply for when you make your application. The UCAS code for the University of Chichester is (CHICH) C58.

For UCAS application deadlines please refer to the UCAS website.