This course offers students with a passionate interest in performance the chance to develop and hone their own acting skills through traditional and innovative theatrical practice.

Women playwrights have written some of the most important plays of recent years: Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane, Tanika Gupta, Lucy Prebble and Alecky Blythe have shaped the course of modern British theatre as much as anyone.

This course will examine the history of women playwrights in Britain, from sixteenth-century Lady Jane Lumley to to the current explosion of multi-cultural women’s voices, such as Tanika Gupta, Lucy Prebble, Chinonyerem Odimba, Beth Flintoff and Ifeyinwa Frederick.

This course takes an active, process-oriented approach to playwriting, directly involving would-be writers for the stage in a collaborative, cooperative creative effort.

Developing a show collaboratively has become increasingly popular in UK theatre, giving rise in recent years to some extraordinarily exciting, dynamic productions and a number of successful and celebrated devising companies. This course is designed for students interested in learning how to devise new dramatic work for themselves, creating narratives without a pre-determined script through an exploratory, collaborative process of improvisation, rehearsal and performance.

This course aims to provide an introduction to the extraordinary artistic scope of Shakespeare’s work across genres. Five plays will be examined in their own contexts.

Realism, Naturalism, Romanticism, Total Theatre, Socialist and Feminist Drama: there have been numerous developments in British Theatre since William Shakespeare and the Renaissance.

Natural Theatre is the UK brand leader in comic interactive street theatre and interactive live performance, combining a unique style of visual comedy with an impeccable eye for detail.

The Rondo is a truly unique and intimate venue, situated in the Larkhall area of Bath. The theatre holds events all year round, and has a hugely varied programme including comedy, theatre and music.

Students can choose the academic or practical study of theatre. Focus on a particular playwright, director, or genre; or develop your own practical skills.