IELTS: 6.5 (min 5.5 in all areas)
Pearson: 59 (59 in all subscores)
BrunELT: 63% (min 55% in all areas)
TOEFL: 90 (min R18, L17, S20, W17)
Storytelling is part of every culture and reveals much about a person’s lived experience, values and aspirations within a given time, whether presented as drama or prose on a page.
In the Theatre and English BA you will discover the richness of theatre making and literature side by side, developing as a creative along the way. In doing so, the Theatre and English BA will help you become a critical and creative communicator equipped for a variety of creative roles.
On the Theatre side of your course, you will learn specialist skills in a range of practices such as acting, applied practice, devising/theatre making, digital theatre, musical theatre, physical theatre and writing for performance.
You’ll learn theatre in Brunel’s purpose-built Antonin Artaud Performance Centre (AA), which has a main theatre, two studio spaces, rehearsal rooms and recording studios.
You’ll learn theatre in Brunel’s purpose-built Antonin Artaud Performance Centre (AA), which is rather like being in drama school with its main theatre, two studio spaces, rehearsal rooms and recording studios.
AA facilities regularly host Arts@Artaud nights showcasing new music, film, creative writing and drama presented by Brunel students.
The English half of your course commences with a module on ‘Reading Resilience’ to help prepare you with the necessary skills for literary studies.
In years two and three a wealth of optional modules await you covering a variety of periods and genres from Shakespeare to Jane Austen, to contemporary and genre fiction.
Established links with the creative industries offer plenty of opportunities to hear from guest speakers and alumni on campus. Off campus, Brunel’s easy access to central London helps to facilitate regular class trips to explore theatre and culture.
Uniquely for a theatre degree, the option of a work placement year is an unmissable opportunity to find out where your interests lie and to increase your attractiveness to future employers.
Students from the course have completed placements in a variety of organisations including the London’s Park Theatre, Rose Wisksteed Casting, Unicorn Theatre and Icarus Theatre Company.
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Year 1
Compulsory
DR1615 Perspectives 1
EN1604 World Literature 1: Going Global
EN1605 World Literature 2: Travels and Migrations
Optional
DR1601 Acting 1: Essential Skills
DR1609 Ensemble Production
DR1607 Applied Drama Practice 1: An Introduction
DR1612 Physical Theatre 1: Between Dance and Theatre
DR1613 Musical Theatre 1
DR1616 Theatre Making 1
DR1617 Digital & Technical Theatre 1
Year 2
Compulsory
DR2608 Perspectives 2
Optional
DR2613 Writing 2: Experiments in Language for Performance
DR2614 Physical Theatre 2: Performance and Embodiment
DR2601 Acting 2: Beyond Naturalism
DR2602 Applied Drama 2: Project
DR2607 Digital Performance 2
DR2612 Musical Theatre 2: Histories, Practices and Theories
DR2619 Theatre Making 2
EN2001 - The Nineteenth-Century Novel
EN2002 - Shakespeare: Text and Performance
EN2014 - Modernism
EN2021 - Romanticism and Revolution
EN2011 - Post-Colonial Writing
EN2610 - Contemporary British and Irish Fiction
EN2605 - Genre Fiction
EN2611 21st Century Fictions of Global Inequality
Year 3
Compulsory
DR3614 Final Production (practical)
DR3608 Written Dissertation
EN3003 - Project
EN3004 English Project
DR3606 Written Dissertation Single
Optional
DR3617 Advanced Physical Theatre 3
DR3601 Perspectives 3: Battling with Ideas
DR3612 Advanced Musical Theatre 3
DR3616 Professional Experience and Development
DR3618 Advanced Acting 3
DR3619 Digital Performance and Technology 3
DR3620 Anti-Racism and Performance
EN3605 - Modern and Contemporary Lesbian Literature
EN3613 - The Creative Industries
EN3617 - Violence
AH3600 - Psychogeography
EN3022 - Victorian Literature and Culture
EN3604 - Writing Ireland
EN3619 - Chaucer to Shakespeare
Potential graduate destinations include:
creative positions within the theatre industry
management and administrative positions within the creative industries as a whole
community-based careers in applied drama practice
educational work either in schools or in the growing number of education departments attached to theatres.
postgraduate study in English, Theatre and Arts Management.
Past students have gone on to work as theatre producers, actors, directors, performers, playwrights, stand-up comedians, casting agents, event managers, and animateurs.
Others have gone on to work as arts administrators, community theatre officers for local councils, drama and English teachers, researchers, public relations, drama therapists and academics.
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
