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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Full Time
Sep 2027
4 Year
The Theatre and Creative Writing BA is ideal if you want to learn more about the richness of theatre and performance, while incorporating your passion for creative writing. On the theatre side of your degree, you’ll develop creative skills in a range of practices such as acting, performance making, and musical theatre, and critically think about performances and their contexts. On the creative writing side of the course, you’ll get to explore a number of writing styles including journalism, screenwriting, comedy writing, short stories and the contemporary novel. You’ll also grow your knowledge through an understanding of the concepts and approaches used in the practice and study of theatre, together with the themes and techniques used by historic and contemporary authors. By studying at Brunel you’ll become part of a rich community of creative students, artists, and academics, and have a variety of opportunities to collaborate through, for example, acting, theatre making, writing and production. Studio Brunel nights regularly showcase new theatre, music, film, and creative writing work by Brunel students. You'll benefit from instruction by internationally renowned industry professionals and academics within specialist facilities. Teaching faculty have worked with prestigious organizations and performing arts venues such as Barbican Theatre, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Tate Modern, and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and Lincoln Centre in NYC. These industry links will support you throughout your journey at Brunel and beyond, for example through industry placements, guest speakers, and access to industry networks. Students from the course have completed placements in a variety of organisations including the London’s Park Theatre, Rose Wisksteed Casting, The Vaults, Unicorn Theatre, Icarus Theatre Company, and the Grieg City Academy. Off campus, Brunel’s easy access to central London helps to facilitate regular class trips to see West End productions and other events.
Skills in analysing performance across main stage productions, site-based work and the performance of everyday life.
Core elements and skills of writing fiction: character, setting, plot, dialogue; audience and showing rather than telling; workshopping prose.
Core elements and skills of writing poetry: the poetic line, form and free verse, sound and voice, concision and redrafting.
Placement Year
In this year students will study optional modules.
Create original performance works from interdisciplinary experience; tools to create and market work. Choose one of the Year 3 compulsory modules.
Substantial research journey crafting a written dissertation. Choose one of the Year 3 compulsory modules.
Produce an extended piece of work totalling 10000 words (plan, journal and project). Choose one of the Year 3 compulsory modules.
Placement Year
Accommodation (on campus)- 690-1,094 per month
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