| The award | How you will study | Study duration | Course start | Domestic course fees | International course fees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA | Full-time | 3 years | find out | GBP 9250 per year | GBP 17500 per year |
This degree offers you a unique opportunity to blend practice and theory, rooted in real-world experience and the wider context of the cultural industries.
You'll develop your own practice in our professional theatre, stage@leeds, and have the chance to work outside the theatre with particular external partners and community groups. You'll also explore the role of theatre and performance in society over time, innovations in practice, performance design, arts management, cultural theory, performance technologies, composition and devising and impact of the cultural industries.
Core modules will introduce you to key thinkers and approaches in theatre and performance studies, as well as enabling you to explore them through practical work. You'll also choose from a range of optional modules offering specialist knowledge in the topics that suit your interests. It's a challenging and rewarding opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of performance and how it relates to the world around it.
The School is based in stage@leeds, a purpose-built, landmark building that sits at the heart of the campus.
It houses two professional standard, publicly licensed theatres. The main space seats 180 and is equipped with the latest technologies. It hosts a range of work by students and visiting theatre companies. The other theatre studio provides a technically advanced performance research facility. The building also contains a dance studio, dressing rooms, box office and meeting rooms.
Other facilities in the School include rehearsal rooms, two black-box studios, costume construction and wardrobe stores, design studio, scenic workshop, computer aided design and video-editing and sound recording suites.
Course content
Your first year will lay the foundations of the degree, with core modules introducing you to theories and approaches in theatre and performance and allowing you to explore them through different modes of practice. You'll develop your performance and devising skills and look at the relationship between text and performance.
In the following year you'll continue with your creative practice, devising performances and workshops for an external organisation such as a school, museum, hospital or prison. You'll also learn to apply different research methods and think about the political, historical, social and cultural contexts of performance practitioners. You'll choose from a range of optional modules to explore your interests, from dance to arts marketing or cultural history.
By your third year you'll have more independence in your practice and research, producing a self-directed independent project and choosing how you'll be assessed. You'll either take part in a collaborative, large-scale public performance or try your hand at an enterprise project. A core module will allow you to explore important issues in the contemporary arts and cultural sector, and you'll demonstrate your knowledge and skills with an independent research project on a topic of your choice.
Course structure
These are typical modules/components studied and may change from time to time. Read more in our Terms and conditions.
Year 1
Compulsory modules
Entry requirements, fees and applying
Entry requirements
A-level: AAA-ABB
This should normally include at least 2 arts and humanities subjects e.g. Drama, English, Performing Arts, Theatre Studies, History. We don't accept General Studies.
Career opportunities
A degree in Theatre and Performance equips you with valuable subject knowledge, cultural awareness and an understanding of the performance and cultural industries. It also gives you transferable skills that are very attractive to employers.
As well as your understanding of performance and the theory behind it, you'll develop strong research and analytical skills. You'll be a confident communicator, who can present and defend your point of view clearly either verbally or in writing. You'll be able to collaborate with others or work independently.
The cultural and creative industries offer a wide range of opportunities for graduates, such as writing, performing directing, production, events management, the media, arts administration, marketing, cultural policy, PR, community arts work and outreach, education and dramatherapy.
However, you'll acquire the skills for professional roles outside of the sector such as finance, law and business. Many of our graduates progress to postgraduate study in related disciplines.
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Careers support
We encourage you to prepare for your career from day one. That's one of the reasons Leeds graduates are so sought after by employers.
Leeds for Life is our unique approach to helping you make the most of University by supporting your academic and personal development. Find out more at the Leeds for Life website.
The Careers Centre and staff in your faculty provide a range of help and advice to help you plan your career and make well-informed decisions along the way, even after you graduate. Find out more at the Careers website.
Study abroad and work placements
Study abroad
On this course you have the opportunity to apply to spend time abroad, usually as an extra academic year. The University has partnerships with more than 400 universities worldwide and popular destinations for our students include Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa and Latin America.
Find out more at the Study Abroad website.
Work placements
Practical work experience can help you decide on your career and improve your employability. On this course you have the option to apply to take a placement year module with organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors in the UK, or overseas.
Find out more about work experience on the Careers website.
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