Course Modules

Working with Classical and Contemporary Screen-play and play text, you will concentrate on speech and physicality as you engage with professional style rehearsal with the opportunity to show rehearsed scenes to an invited private audience.

You will examine various methodologies relating to single camera programming to gain experience of pre-production, studio/location operation and post-production techniques relating to performance.

More information on this module will be available soon.

This module serves as foundation training for developing a range of screen acting craft skills and an understanding of key screen acting theories and professional practices.

This module will examine some current examples of the genre, with a focus on how devising processes have been utilised within the field. The historical context of devising will be studied and analysed, in order to inform students’ own practical

This module will examine some current examples of the genre, mostly in video format, but with the possibility of visits to live performance as appropriate. The relationship between music and drama will be studied and analysed in order to inform

This module will give you an insight to the role of a ‘swing’ within a musical theatre performance context. You will explore performance styles in practical work and be encouraged to approach new and more ambitious material. You will keep

The importance of communicative performance and of an actively engaging relationship with the viewer will continue to be emphasised in group lessons and in formative performance assessment and a more self-critical approach to standards of presentation will be encouraged in

The module will introduce students to key skills in examining repertoire drawn from succeeding periods of movie musical history, supporting an examination of musical structure with a parallel focus on developments in dance and drama within the genre.

This module builds upon the first year modules British and American Musical Theatre by relating an historical overview of the development of the genre to an examination of current trends and practices in musical theatre both here and in the