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Welcome to the University of NorthamptonActingActing & Creative PracticeDrama
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Acting – Creative Practice - Drama
Why study at Northampton?
• Employability: 95% or more for five years running*
• Teaching excellence
• Research
• Social impact – UK’s first Changemaker Campus**
• Location
• More than just a good degree
* Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2014/15. July 2016
**Ashoka U
*Modules available subject to staffing and student numbers
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Course Overview
• Small group lectures
• Seminars
• Tutorials
• Workshops
• Independent and group study
• One-to-one supervisions
Entry criteria.
• A typical offer is around BCC at A Level, DMM at BTEC
• We may also accept Foundation diplomas or equivalent
• You’ll need to attend an extensive audition, lasting most of the day
Teaching style
Learning and Teaching atWaterside.
Our Learning Hub, the heart of Waterside Campus
combines resources, staff and learning spaces that
would traditionally be separate.
You’ll study in small interactive group sessions,
enhanced by the latest developments in technology.
Waterside has been designed to give you a personalized
learning experience, excellent opportunities to develop
your academic experience and life skills.
Innovation Centre
• Conservatoire style teaching
• Six fully equipped training studios
• Café on site
• Across the road from Northampton train station
• Short walk to Northampton town centre
• Ten minutes walk from Waterside Campus
The purpose of the BA (Hons) Acting is to produce professional actors who have the imagination and determination to work successfully in stage, screen and mediated voice performance.
Utilising classical and contemporary acting techniques, our graduates will be able to sustain believable characters and contexts with a thorough grasp of textual analysis, and the vocal and physical skills necessary for the professional performance industry.
Our Aim
• Your teaching is done over a 30+ hour week in specialist studios.
• 4 full-time members of staff with over 20 specialist industry professionals.
• A balance of 80% practical and 20% theoretical training and assessment.
BA (Hons) Acting
What makes Acting special?
1. Conservatoire style training within a University environment
2. Recognised by Equity & Spotlight
3. Technique, Voice and Movement training throughout all levels
4. The skills you need to work with a director on a text-based production
How is this achieved?
• Training
• Education
• Practice
Graduation
• Professional CV, Voice-reel, Show-reel and online presence
• Graduate EQUITY card – only available to accredited training programmes
• Opportunity to join Spotlight as a Graduate for a significant discount – only available to accredited training programmes
• Audition for companies who are looking for character actors who can work with a text
• Operate in the professional performance industry as a self-employed actor
• Acting Methodologies 1 (Basic level certification in Stage Combat from the APC)
• Vocal Technique for Actors 1 (Individual and Group Singing tuition)
• Actors Body & Movement 1
• Improvisation for Actors
• Theories & Histories of Acting
Stage One Modules
Stage Two Modules
• Acting Methodologies 2 (intermediate level certification in Stage Combat)
• Vocal Technique for Actors 2 (individual and group Singing & visiting professional vocal coaches)
• Actors Body & Movement 2
• Media Acting (Performance for both Screen and Radio)
• Working with a Director (With professional directors)
Stage Three Modules
• Acting Methodologies 3 (4 full length performances)
• Vocal Technique for Actors 3
• Actors Body & Movement 3
• Industry Preparation (Agents give interviews as part of this module)
• Negotiated Project (Part of the Flash Theatre Festival)
London Showcase
• As a culmination of three years of rigorous training, agents, casting directors, producers and directors are invited to watch our graduating actors perform and then network with them as they prepare to enter the industry.
• This is currently held at The Tristan Bates Theatre in London's West End.
BA (Hons) Acting & Creative Practice
• Fully accredited by Equity
• 30 hours per week contact time
• 30 weeks per year of study/practice
• 80% practical, 20% theory
• Specialist teachers in all areas of study
Professional actor training with a contemporary focus.
Year one.
Actor training.
You will study: script analysis, character development, performing truthfully.
Vocal training.
You will learn: how to produce your voice to a professional standard, how to keep your voice healthy, how to be confident vocally, especially when singing
Physical training.
You will learn: how to use body language to communicate, dance technique, basic stage combat skills..
Creative practice.
You will learn: how to develop your creativity through improvisation and play.
Actor training.
You will study: screen acting, acting for radio, performing Shakespeare.
Vocal training.
You will study: accents, monologue techniques, acting through song.
Physical training.
You will learn: physical theatre techniques, advanced stage combat.
Creative practice.
You will learn: film making, script writing, site-specific theatre, immersive theatre.
Year two.
Year three.Six projects.
1. Work with a professional director on a text–based public performance.
2. Work with a professional director adapting a novel or a film to be performed at the Royal & Derngate Theatre.
3. Create a public performance for a specific social group under the supervision of a professional director/producer.
4. Create a show suitable for national touring. This will be performed in a Fringe Theatre Festival.
5. Get ready for the industry (e.g. CV, headshots, create your own web page, show reel, voice reel and portfolio of audition pieces ).
6. Perform in a London Showcase for agents and casting directors.
• Agents and casting directors are invited to come and see the students in a showcase performance directed by a professional director
• This is currently held at The Soho Theatre in London's West End.
London showcase.
Drama at Northampton.
• Directing
• Playwriting
• Performance
• Technical design
• Socially engaged arts practices
• Dramaturgy
• Devising
• Theatre-in-education
• Devising
• Producing and curating live events
The programme is designed around the practical study of live theatre and performance underpinned by theoretical and historical contexts, which provides students with a career outlook that might consider:
Our courses.
• Foundation Study Framework, Drama
• BA (Hons) Drama
• BA/BSc (Hons) Drama (Joint Honours)
The opportunity to study Drama as a Joint Honoursstudent leads to a rich and diverse combination of students studying alongside one another, intertwining perspectives and knowledge gained on other courses.
The Foundation and HND programmes further diversify the perspectives, interests and career outlooks of the student body, which in turn reflects the multitude of careers and specialties that may be pursued in the wider field of Drama.
The ethos.
• Establish an ethos and approach to creative practices
• Building on the professionalism, rigor, empathy and commitment of theatre-making.
At the centre of the programme’s practical learning is the development of a collaborative, imaginative, reflexive and critically engaged mindset.
The Drama programme prepares students with a practical toolbox of methodologies and approaches to theatre-making in order to situate themselves within the diverse career pathways within the fields of Drama, Theatre and Performance industries.
Stage one.Learning across all modules is brought
together in a tutor-led production devised by
the first-year ensemble and presented to the
public at the end of the year.
• Histories and cultures of Theatre
• Creating Theatre
• Performance Skills*
• Technologies of performance*
*Denotes Single Honours and Foundation Study Framework students only
Stage two. Students are engaged in a year-long focused
research endeavor developing a full-length
new work in Specialist Theatre, which is
produced for a public audience at the end of
the year.
• Specialist Study
• Actor and Text
• Learning through Drama
• Professional Practice 1*
• Writing for Performance
*Denotes Single Honours and Foundation Study Framework students only
Stage three.Students form their
own companies to create and produce
a new work, gaining experience in
producing work within small-scale and fringe theatre
contexts.
The Professional Practice modules in Years 2 and 3 place
an emphasis on a range of practical
skills related to searching for, applying and
interviewing for jobs.
• Adaptations in Drama
• Independent Research Project
• Professional Practices 2*
• Socially Engaged Performance and Applied Practices
*Denotes Single Honours and Foundation Study Framework students only
Enhancement.• IDEK STUDENT COMPANY
• WEEKLY YEAR LEVEL MEETINGS
• FIELD TRIPS
• CHANGING FUTURES WEEK
Foundation StudyFramework.The Foundation Study Framework at the University of
Northampton is an opportunity for you to successfully study
a four-year version of the three-year degree without the
standard entry qualifications, whilst gaining critical study skills.
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Joint honours.
For 2020 entry can be taken with:
A B C D
Advertising Education Studies Business Accounting
Economics English Drama Business Entrepreneurship
History Law Education Studies Criminology
Popular Music Marketing Management Events Management Human Geography
Psychology Creative Film, Television and Digital Media
Production
Film and Screen Studies Human Resource Management
International Tourism Management
Sport Studies Health Studies International Politics
International Development Management Multimedia Journalism
Sociology Applied Social Care
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Personal Tutor.
• You will be allocated a personal tutor at the start of the year
• They are there to help you with every aspect of university life
• They’ll be in touch at various point in the academic year
• You can arrange to meet them at any time
Money Matters.
• A range of scholarships and bursaries to support you
• Financial Guidance Team on hand to help you with any money queries from student loans to financial hardship, and budgeting to loans
Accommodation.
• Halls of Residence on campus, in the town centre and BoughtonGreen Road
• Private Sector Officer to give advice and guidance if you’re looking to go into private sector accommodation
Health.
• Doctor’s surgery on campus
• Counselling and Mental Health Team
• Additional Needs and Disability Support (ASSIST)
• Residential Life Team are there to support and advise students living in halls
Support.
We are here for you.
