Stage Management and Technical Theatre - BA (Hons)

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

This specialist programme offers you hands-on training in stage management, stagecraft, technical theatre, event production and event management.It provides opportunities for you to gain practical experience in a variety of production roles within a working environment that closely reflects that of the professional theatre and its related industries.You’ll start by learning all the core skills needed to work on productions. Training in stage management – which revolves around organising and coordinating a live performance – includes a series of practical sessions. These will deepen your knowledge and understanding of the roles of assistant stage manager (ASM) and deputy stage manager (DSM) and include projects in prop making and sourcing.Your stagecraft sessions will explore the skills you need to mark out rehearsal rooms and stages, construct and fit-up basic scenery, and operate stage machinery such as hemp and counterweight flying systems. You’ll also gain technical knowledge of lighting, sound, video and electrical systems. Health and safety training is embedded throughout the course. But it’s using your skills in a range of real-world experiences that forms the foundation of your training. Throughout your course, you’ll take part in several production placements – predominantly with the Richard Burton Company, our in-house theatre company – however, up to three of these could be within professional UK theatre production companies.