BA (Hons) Drama and Applied Theatre
London, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
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STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
BA (Hons) Drama and Applied Theatre
Applied Theatre at Central is highly regarded internationally and the Drama, Applied Theatre and Education (DATE) is a world leading degree that will train you as a highly adaptable theatre maker. You will focus on performance making in diverse settings such as community centers, parks, prisons, pupil referral units, refugee camps, hospitals, playgrounds, schools and nursing homes both in the UK and abroad. Such innovative work aims to bring about change in communities and participants from all walks of life. We believe that excellent professional applied drama theatre makers are skilled practically, intellectually and come from a diverse set of backgrounds themselves. We work with you to help you meet the challenge of developing your practice and intellectual abilities. You will have the opportunity to develop skills in areas such as facilitating, devising, directing, performing, playwriting and filmmaking.
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Year 1 / Level 4 Overview. Year 1 is built around students having a variety of learning experiences that are focused on the acquisition of skills and knowledge. The year is experienced mainly in large groups where students learn the skills of debating, forming and communicating an opinion in speech and writing. Students engage with theatre and performance making experiences, lecture based sessions as well as studying and experiencing how applied theatre works in real contexts. At times, students on the Writing for Performance pathway will take specific classes that focus on the dramaturgical tools of writing for performance. 8 Year 2/ Level 5 Overview. Year 2 builds on year one and is more focused on smaller group projects as students work on units where they have the opportunity to work more intensively with a group on particular activities. Students are encouraged in the structure of the year to begin to indicate what they are most interested in through choice within units. This choice might be in terms of a practical project (where students can work on a studio production, a play writing project or a film making project) or in terms of small community focused projects (where students can enter into negotiation around a particular theme, issue or community with whom they wish to work.) Year 3/Level 6 Overview. Year 3 is where students begin to work as peer professionals in the industry and are able to focus the remainder of their degree on an area in which they are interested. The final practical work in which the students engage is in small self-selected groups, or in an individual playwriting project, running alongside an individual dissertation. Students finish the degree with a unit that plans their interests post graduation both in terms of the industry and also their own particular philosophical response to their study.