BA (Hons) Acting for Contemporary Theatre

Overview

Study theatre production, acting and performance

Our BA (Hons) Acting for Contemporary Theatre degree is a highly practical programme which will develop your skills, ideas and experiences to prepare you for your career in the theatre industries.

Centre yourself in the theatrical world

Examine the broad and diverse role of the actor in contemporary theatre as an integral part of the theatre-making process. As part of this, you will study devising, scriptwriting, and directing alongside developing your performance skills.

Develop your performance skills

You will train to become a versatile, proactive, and independent actor-maker, with an emphasis on rigorous and generous creative practice.

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.

Work placement opportunities

You will benefit from the Theatre Department’s excellent links with the professional theatre industry and have opportunities to work closely with a range of artists, theatre companies, producers, and festival programmers.

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 our BA (Hons) Acting course, so you will work with and perform with other students throughout your degree.

On this course you will:

• Develop your performance skills as a theatre actor.
• Explore the expanded role of the actor within contemporary theatre.
• Expand your knowledge and skills beyond performance as you study devising, scriptwriting, and directing.
• Have the option to undertakes placement with a range of theatres.
• Benefit from our professional industry partnerships throughout your studies.
• Access placement opportunities including roles at The Chichester Festival Theatre, Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Festival and more.

Discover theatre production, acting and performance

This course has been renamed from BA (Hons) Theatre for 2023 onwards.

This BA (Hons) Acting for Contemporary Theatre degree is a highly practical programme which will develop your skills, ideas and experiences to prepare you for your career in the theatre industries.

Explore narrative, physical and visual theatre, and text and cultural identity throughout your degree. You will develop your performance skills and explore topics including performance, production, critical and cultural studies, business management and applied arts practice.

Careers

Where you could go after your studies

This BA (Hons) Acting for Contemporary Theatre degree will prepare you for a range of careers in industry and you will graduate ready for the workplace. Our professional development programme offers a range of formal internships with professional partner organisations to ensure that graduates are well-prepared for careers in the cultural industries.

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.