Course Summary

This degree explores the practice of theatre and performance in community and educational settings, for social, political and personal change. **Why study BA Drama: Performance, Politics, and Society at Goldsmiths?** - You’ll explore the relationship between arts and activism, particularly in the fields of politics, international relations and sociology, and between a work and its historical, social, culture, and intellectual context. - You'll think about what it means to perform in different settings including social care, prisons and community centres - An exemplary team of Goldsmiths artists and academics will teach and mentor you. They also lead their own creative projects and continue to publish their own academic work, too – so you can be sure that what you’re learning is relevant and up-to-date. - This degree reflects Goldsmiths’ radical, political, and interdisciplinary home of the arts and humanities in the heart of London.

Course Details - Modules

Year 1 - In your first year you will take the following compulsory modules : Critical Dialogues A Introduction to Dramaturgy Processes of Performance: The Ensemble Scenography Theatre Making 1 The Politics of Play, Plays and Playing Radical Performance Vocabularies Year 2 - In your second year you will study: Modernisms and Postmodernity A Questions of Performance Contexts of Practice Creativity and Culture A: Contexts Creativity and Culture B: Crafts You also choose modules from the following options: Modernisms and Postmodernity B You choose one option module from a range available within the Department. The modules on offer may differ from year to year as they reflect staff interests, but modules recently offered include: Postcolonial Theatre Theatre and the Artistic Avant-Garde Women, Feminism & Playwrighting Samuel Beckett: Performance, Writing and Philosophy Bertolt Brecht and Political Theatre Modernisms and Postmodernity B: Activism and the Theatrical Avant Garde Postmodern Gender, Identity, and Queer Theory Elements of Theatre History The aim here is to develop an understanding of the relationship between a work and its historical - social, cultural, intellectual - context. You choose one 15 credit module. Options are likely to change from year to year depending on staff interests, but modules offered recently include: Elements of Theatre History: American Theatre in the Mid-20th Century Elements of Theatre History: Shakespeare & Renaissance Theatre Elements of Theatre History: Classical Greek Theatre ETH: Theatre of Revival and Revolt: 20th Century Ireland Elements of Theatre History: Russian Theatre Elements of Theatre History: Spanish & Catalan Theatre Elements of Theatre History: African Theatre Elements of Theatre History: British Alternative Theatre History ETH: Polish Theatre Elements of Theatre History: Francophone Theatres from Africa, the Caribbean and Canada Year 3 - In your third year you will study: Culture and Performance: Critical Cultural Theory Culture and Performance B: Options Theatre Making 3: Laboratory and Projects Major Research Project: Drama Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.

Course Details – Assessment Method

You’ll be assessed through a variety of performances, production processes, essays, group projects, dissertation and timed examinations.

Course Details – Professional Bodies

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

How to Apply

26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application Codes

Course code: LL0W

Institution code: G56

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Points of Entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Year 2

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)

120 credits at Level 4 and a 2:1 average in a comparable programme, and meet the standard qualification requirements for entry to Year 1 of the programme.

International applicants

Standard Qualification Requirements

Pass with 45 Level 3 credits including 30 Distinctions and a number of merits/passes in subject specific modules

With three Higher Level subjects at 655


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Minimum Qualification Requirements

Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

English language requirements

Test Grade AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a 6.0 in writing and no element lower than 5.5
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Unistats information

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Fees and funding

Additional Fee Information

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Provider information

New Cross
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Lewisham
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