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Theatre Design and Production BA

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Duration

3 years full-time

Fees

£9,250 (UK) *
£14,700 (EU / INT) *

Course leader

Nicola Stammers

1. Overview
2. Course content
3. Teaching
4. Entry requirements
5. Fees and funding
6. Careers
7. Facilities
8. Campus life
9. Contact us

Overview

Theatre and the creative industries are one of the fastest-growing sectors in the UK and the theatre industry is changing rapidly. Our innovative degree will allow you to gain the skills you need to build a portfolio career in the arts. You'll have many opportunities to collaborate and work within the industry while exploring a range of diverse specialisms that will place you at the forefront of emerging design practices.

Why study BA Theatre Design and Production at Middlesex University?

This course has been designed to develop your skills and talents as a designer while equipping you with a wide range of theatre-making and production skills that give you the ability to put your creative ideas into action. We have a long-held reputation in industry for producing innovative, highly-skilled and thoughtful graduates who go on to challenge conventions and re-shape how theatre is made and seen.

As well as scenographic and technical training with leading practitioners, you'll discover a range of production skills essential to making theatre, allowing you to build a wide portfolio of skills and specialisms that will make you highly employable and enable you to build a career in the arts.

If you're wondering whether to choose a university course or a drama school, Middlesex offers the best of both worlds by combining highly practical teaching and a wide range of production opportunities with the chance to closely examine why and how theatre is made, giving you the freedom to pursue your interests and discover what makes you unique as a designer and practitioner.

Course highlights

• Learn all the practical and critical skills needed to produce innovative, cutting-edge theatre for contemporary audiences
• Design and produce work in our five on-campus theatre venues, and at partner venues across London and internationally
• Opportunities to collaborate with students, professionals and partner organisations are embedded in every part of your programme
• All students have the opportunity to participate in a work placement or a professional case study
• Option to specialise in directing and opt onto the BA Theatre Directing and Production exit award in your final year.

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Course content

What will you study on BA Theatre Design and Production?

This course will develop your skills and talents as a scenographer while equipping you with a wide range of theatre-making and production skills that give you the ability to put your creative ideas into action.

You'll study the key processes and principles of the practice and study of design and production as well as a diverse range of critical, cultural and historical perspectives on theatre as a live art form. You'll also learn how these are applied or considered in scenographic practice. You'll explore ethical approaches to theatre-making and the role of critical analysis in your and others' design practice, and be introduced to professional networks, contexts and organisations relevant to your future career.

During your studies, you'll develop and refine a broad portfolio of skills, methods, techniques and crafts in scenographic and production practices. You'll gain the key entrepreneurial and administrative skills required for a career in the creative industries, and develop an individual approach to delivering highly creative work underpinned by innovation and critical insight.

What will you gain?

This degree will give you the opportunity to develop new production and technical skills in Lighting, Costume, Set Design, Projection, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Sound, Puppetry, Props, Stage Management and Production/Events.

You'll gain the ability to identify design challenges and generate and process design ideas and concepts as well as being able to critically reflect on your and others' work  and evaluate a range of creative practices.

You'll learn to effectively communicate your ideas through model boxes, ground plans, CAD, Q-lab, prompt copy and be able to organise, produce and manage events. Your team-work and decision making skills will also be developed through collaborative and individual theatre making.

Modules

• Year 1

  • Introduction to Design and Production (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module introduces you to key principles of theatre design and technical production through practical workshops and group projects. You'll develop an understanding of the role of the theatre designer within a collaborative process, and examine key processes and approaches to designing for live performance.

  • Perspectives on Theatre (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module introduces key contexts, debates and critical frameworks relevant to theatre and performance practice. You'll develop your understanding in a range of research methods, and develop your ability to analyse and critique live performance. You'll combine self-directed study supported by a range of online resources with live seminars and theatre visits.

  • Working with Theatre Technology (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module will introduce you to technology and technical processes used as part of contemporary theatre making. You'll explore the key practical skills that underpin production work, such as stage lighting, immersive audio production, video and pixel mapping, pyrotechnics, 3D design, virtual and augmented realities.

  • Making Theatre (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module gives you the opportunity to apply the skills and knowledge you have encountered throughout the first year to develop and realise a collaborative theatre project. Working with a tutor and students from across the Performance and Design programmes, you'll participate in all of the creative and production elements necessary to realise a fully-staged piece of theatre.

• Year 2

  • Theatre Industry: Applied Practices (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module aims to enhance your critical consideration of the social, political and ethical implications of engaging with an audience through your practice. You'll develop employability and workshop-leading skills, and enhance your awareness and consideration of who theatre is for, why, and how this can impact the work from initial concept through to its practical realisation.

  • The Scenographer (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module builds on key principles that were introduced in year 1 by exploring and interrogating a range of approaches and interpretative strategies employed by key practitioners. You'll examine developments in contemporary theatre design and strengthen your ability to generate, develop and communicate ideas and concepts effectively, and to execute these concepts through a range of practical tasks and projects.

  • Design Project (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module allows you to develop your skills as a designer and theatre-maker, and apply the skills that you have encountered on other modules in a collaborative performance project. You'll collaborate with students on the Performance programme to conceive and realise a collaborative project, working to a shared brief and contributing to the overall thematic and contextual aims of the project.

  • The Actor and Director (30 credits) - Optional

    The module focuses on the relationship between actor, director and play text. You will develop skills in text analysis, speaking text, and staging/performance through a project-based approach. Further, you will engage with a range of acting and performing systems, including training of voice and body. In this module you will investigate more closely the respective roles of the actor and the director working in rehearsal with a play text and engage in close analysis of action. You will also develop your ability to reflect on your practice, learning and personal development.

  • The Writer and Dramaturg (30 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to develop your critical understanding and application of a range of techniques for dramatic writing and dramaturgical intervention. Through the practical exploration of elements of dramatic structure, it aims to equip you with the tools to conceive of and develop a written project throughout the module, developing your understanding of the dramatic form as a tool to communicate your ideas.

  • Creative Collaborations (30 credits) - Optional

    This module provides opportunities for creative collaboration across the wider University and/or with external partners. You'll extend and challenge your understanding of collaboration, working with artists/practitioners to push at the boundaries of conventional theatre practice, and there will be opportunities to work on projects led by other creative disciplines beyond theatre.

• Year 3

  • Theatre Industry: Placement and Portfolio (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module provides the opportunity to engage in a range of externally-facing projects, placements and/or critical investigations into professional practice. You'll develop your knowledge of professional skills and theories around areas such as producing, fundraising, artistic policies and audience development as well as refining methodologies, attitudes and competencies for seeking work in a professional context.

  • Design: Scenography and Technology * (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module enhances your scenographic practice through the interrogation of approaches and strategies employed by key practitioners. You'll engage with significant developments in contemporary scenography and explore current trends and technological developments. You'll further develop your skills and approaches in designing through space, initiating a practical design-led project.

  • Theatre Festival (30 credits) - Compulsory

    This module provides the opportunity to work in and across groups to create and contextualise collaborative projects which are curated and presented as a collective Theatre Festival. You will produce the Theatre Festival as an outward-facing public showcase, encouraging you to consider your work in a professional context and apply the practical making skills taught in other modules, alongside the producing skills taught in this module.

  • Directing: Practices and Philosophies ** (30 credits) - Optional

    This module will extend your critical and practical skills in theatre directing. You'll initiate a series of directing projects enabling you to take a nuanced approach to developing and analysing your professional identity as a director of theatre and/or live performance. You'll also consider where this practice intersects with other skills and disciplines you have engaged with on your programme.

  • Solo: Stand-up Comedy / Performance Art (30 credits) - Optional

    This module aims to extend your individual performance practices in one of two pathways: Stand-up Comedy or Performance Art. You'll develop practical skills and contextual knowledge in one of these forms, applying appropriate performance theory and/or performance philosophy to the development of a live performance in a professional comedy venue, or the exhibition of a work of performance art.

  • Theatre Laboratory (30 credits) - Optional

    This module allows you to identify a particular site of exploration and experimentation and to engage in a practice-led Research and Development project relevant to the chosen area. The module incentivises risk and experimentation, encouraging you to consider the practical research process as an end in itself, and introduces you to preliminary skills relevant to Practice as Research study at postgraduate level.

* This module is compulsory for the BA Theatre Design and Production exit award

** This module is compulsory for the BA Theatre Directing and Production exit award

More information about this course

See the course specification for more information about typical course content outside of the coronavirus outbreak:

• Course specification

Optional modules are usually available at levels 5 and 6, although optional modules are not offered on every course. Where optional modules are available, you will be asked to make your choice during the previous academic year. If we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, or there are staffing changes which affect the teaching, it may not be offered. If an optional module will not run, we will advise you after the module selection period when numbers are confirmed, or at the earliest time that the programme team make the decision not to run the module, and help you choose an alternative module.

Teaching

1. Overview
2. Teaching and learning in 2021/22
3. Assessment and feedback

• We are regularly reviewing and updating our programmes to ensure you have the best learning experience. We are taking what we've learnt during the pandemic and enhancing our teaching methods with new and innovative ways of learning. Please regularly check this section of the course page for updates.

  How is the BA Theatre Design and Production taught?

  Theatre at Middlesex is practice-based study and the majority of your study will be through practice-led sessions or workshops. The practice-based learning could take the form of design tasks and projects, discussion, and writing.

  Assessment

  The course is assessed 100% on coursework and usually breaks down to roughly 75% practice and 25% documentation. You are observed in classes, production meetings, design presentations and performances, as well as through your documentation, written submissions and discussions. This is a two-way discussion, between you and your tutor(s) and in some modules an interview/discussion may form part of the Assessment Task or Activity.

• We have developed new approaches to teaching and learning for the 2021/22 academic year, and have resumed the majority of our teaching on campus.

  We are currently reviewing our approach to teaching and learning for 2022 entry and beyond. We've learned a lot about how to give you a quality education - we aim to combine the best of our pre-pandemic teaching and learning with access to online learning and digital resources which put you more in charge of when and how you study. We will keep you updated on this throughout the application process.

  Your timetable will be built around on campus sessions using our professional facilities, with online sessions for some activities where we know being virtual will add value. We'll use technology to enhance all of your learning and give you access to online resources to use in your own time.

  The table below gives you an idea of what learning looks like across a typical week. Some weeks are different due to how we schedule classes and arrange on campus sessions.

  This information is likely to change slightly for 2022 entry as our plans evolve. You'll receive full information on your teaching before you start your course.

  Learning structure: typical hourly breakdown in 2021/22
  Live in-person on campus learning	Contact hours per week, per level:	Year 1: 8 hours Year 2: 8 hours Year 3: 6 hours
  Live online learning	Average hours per week, per level:	Year 1: 4 hours Year 2: 4 hours Year 3: 4 hours
  Tutor set learning activities	Average hours per week, per level:	Year 1: 2 hours Year 2: 2 hours Year 3: 2 hours

  Outside of these hours, you'll be expected to do independent study where you read, listen and reflect on other learning activities. This can include preparation for future classes. In a year, you'll typically be expected to commit 1200 hours to your course across all styles of learning. If you are taking a placement, you might have some additional hours.

  Definitions of terms

  • Live in-person on campus learning – This will focus on active and experiential sessions that are both:
    • Led by your tutors including seminars, lab sessions and demonstrations We'll schedule all of this for you
    • Student-led by you and other students, like small group work and presentations.
  • Live online learning – This will include lectures, tutorials and supervision sessions led by your tutor and timetabled by us. It also includes student-led group work that takes place online
  
  
  • Tutor set learning activities – This covers activities which will be set for you by your tutor, but which you will undertake in your own time. Examples of this include watching online materials, participating in an online discussion forum, completing a virtual laboratory or reading specific texts. You may be doing this by yourself of with your course mates depending on your course and assignments. Outside of these hours, you'll also be expected to do further independent study where you'll be expected to learn, prepare, revise and reflect in your own time.

  Support

  You have a strong support network available to you to make sure you develop all the necessary academic skills you need to do well on your course.

  Our support services will be delivered online and on campus and you have access to a range of different resources so you can get the help you need, whether you're studying at home or have the opportunity to come to campus.

  You have access to one to one and group sessions for personal learning and academic support from our library and IT teams, and our network of learning experts. Our teams will also be here to offer financial advice, and personal wellbeing, mental health and disability support.

• We've made changes to how we assess our courses due to the restrictions which were in place during the pandemic. We're reviewing what aspects of these changes to take forwards into 2021/22 and you'll be provided information on this by your academic department.

  Assessment

  The course will provide you with opportunities to test your knowledge and understanding through 'formative' assessment. This will be completed before your formal 'summative' assessment that will count towards your final marks. Each module normally contains at least one piece of formative assessment on which you will receive feedback from your tutor. Formative assessments are developmental and any grade you receive from formative assessment does not count towards your final marks.

  Each module contains 'summative' assessments and their grades count towards your overall module mark. Assessment methods could include individual and group performances, presentations, essays and portfolios. Assessments are reviewed annually and may be updated based on student or external examiner feedback.

  Percentage of course assessed by coursework

  BA Theatre Design and Production is 100% coursework assessed, made up of a combination of live performance and production work, portfolios, reflective and academic writing, presentations and interviews.

  Feedback

  You will receive feedback on both formative summative assessments. Feedback is intended to help you learn and progress, and you are encouraged to review and discuss your feedback with your module or personal tutor.

  We will aim to provide you with feedback within 15 working days of submission.

  Details of progression and pass marks for assessment can be found in the university regulations.

Entry requirements

1. Standard entry requirements
2. International (inc. EU)
3. How to apply
4. Interviews

• Our entry requirements provide a guide to the qualifications that you'll need to study our courses. We have a personalised admissions approach and we make fair but aspirational offers. We want you to aim high and achieve great results.

  We understand that things have been very different at school and college since the pandemic started. We'll always aim to be as flexible as possible and take into consideration any barriers you may have faced in your learning.

  We're currently reviewing entry requirements based on this and they may be subject to some small changes. However, if you don't quite get the grades you hoped, we'll also look at more than your qualifications like your achievements in other areas and your personal statement.

  At Middlesex, we're proud of how we recognise potential in future students like you and how we can support you to succeed in the future.

  Qualifications

  We accept applications from students with a wide range of qualifications, including combinations of qualifications. The requirements for our most common entry qualifications can be found below:

  112-128 UCAS Tariff Points

  A Levels	BBC-BBB
  BTEC	DMM-DDM
  Access requirements	Overall pass: must include 45 credits at level 3, of which all 45 must be at Merit or higher
  Combinations	A combination of A-Level, BTEC and other accepted qualifications that total 112 - 128 UCAS Tariff points

  Our general entry requirements page outlines how we make offers where we have given a range (e.g. BBB – BBC in A levels), and how you will be made an offer if you are studying a combination of qualifications (e.g. BTEC and A level). In both cases, we will base this on information you've provided on your application.

  Applications from mature candidates without formal qualifications are welcomed, provided they can demonstrate appropriate levels of relevant ability and experience.

  Eligibility

  UK/EU and international students are eligible to apply for this course.

  Academic credit for previous study or experience

  If you have achieved a qualification such as a foundation degree or HND, or have gained credit at another university, you may be able to enter a Middlesex University course in year two or three. For further information please visit our Transfer students page.

  If you have relevant qualifications or work experience, academic credit may be awarded towards your Middlesex University programme of study. For further information please visit our Accreditation of Prior Learning page.

  Interviews, entrance tests, portfolios and auditions

  Entry onto this course does not require an audition but shortlisted applicants will be expected to submit a showreel.

  Please view the Interviews tab for more information.

• Qualifications

  In addition to qualifications such as A level and International Baccalaureate, we accept a wide range of international qualifications.

  Find out more about the qualifications we accept from your country on the relevant support in your country page. If you are unsure about the suitability of your qualifications or would like help with your application, please contact your nearest regional office for support.

  English language requirements for international students

  You must have competence in English language to study with us. The most commonly accepted evidence of English language ability is IELTS 6.0 (with minimum 5.5 in all components). We also normally require Grade C GCSE or an equivalent qualification. Visit our English language requirements page for a full list of accepted tests and qualifications. For some EU countries, we may be able to accept English language competency evidenced through your high school qualification. If you don't meet our minimum English language requirements, we offer an intensive pre-sessional English course.

  Visas and immigration

  In order to study in the UK, you will need to apply for a student route visa. Please see our visas and immigration page for further information.

• Applicants will normally be invited to attend an interview day of moving, thinking, making and playing in our exciting theatre facilities on our Hendon campus. You'll get to work with our staff and current students, meet other applicants, and together we'll create a piece of theatre and showcase it at the end of the day.

  Interview days are a unique opportunity for you to experience what it's like to be a member of the Theatre community at Middlesex University. If you have a particular interest in design and visual theatre, you're welcome to bring along a portfolio or sketch-book.

  Please visit our Interviews, portfolios and auditions page where you will find tips and advice to help you prepare and do your best on the day.

  Visit an Open Day

  We strongly advise all prospective applicants to attend an Open Day. You will be able to talk to staff and students, listen to talks on the subject areas that interest you and ask questions.

Fees and funding

1. UK
2. EU / International
3. Additional costs

• The fees below refer to the 2021/22 academic year unless otherwise stated.

  UK students*

  Full-time students: £9,250

  *Course fees are subject to annual inflation.

  For more information and to answer your frequently asked questions, please visit our undergraduate funding page.

• The fees below refer to the 2021/22 academic year unless otherwise stated.

  EU / International students*

  Full-time students: £14,700

  *Course fees are subject to annual inflation.

  For more information and ,to answer your frequently asked questions, please visit our undergraduate funding page.

• Course costs

  The following course-related costs are included in the fees:

  • A free electronic textbook for every module
  • All printing and copying required for your study
  • Self-service laptops available for loan for a maximum of 24 hours
  • Audio-visual equipment available for loan, including digital stills cameras, digital video recorders, digital audio recorders

Careers

How can the BA Theatre Design and Production support your career?

This course will prepare you for a career in the creative industries by providing opportunities to engage in a range of externally-facing projects, placements and/or critical investigations into professional practice.

You'll develop your knowledge of professional skills and theories around areas such as producing, fundraising, artistic policies and audience development as well as refining and diversifying methodologies, attitudes and competencies for seeking and undertaking work in a professional context.

You'll be encouraged to establish professional links and enhance onward employability potential through a practice-led understanding of your chosen professional context(s) and contextualise your own creative practice/identity within a wider industry context.

Our theatre students typically graduate into diverse career paths directly in the theatre industry as well as its many peripheral industries. You could progress to careers in theatre design, lighting, sound, costume, video design and operation, directing, dramaturgy, producing and arts management. You could also advance into arts administration, teaching and non-theatre based careers within film, media, events and other creative industries.

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We'll carefully manage any future changes to courses, or the support and other services available to you, if these are necessary because of things like changes to government health and safety advice, or any changes to the law.

Any decisions will be taken in line with both external advice and the University's Regulations which include information on this.

Our priority will always be to maintain academic standards and quality so that your learning outcomes are not affected by any adjustments that we may have to make.

At all times we'll aim to keep you well informed of how we may need to respond to changing circumstances, and about support that we'll provide to you.

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