Course Titles:
Drama with scenography module (? x 3 yrs, full time) - BA (Hons) Degree
Drama (? x ? yrs, full time) - MA
Validating Body: University of Hull
Hours per week: 35 hours
Closing Date: UCAS
Course Leader: Robert Cheesemond

Course Description:
The degree is noted for its emphasis on practical production work. It is not specifically designed as a vocational training in any of the theatre crafts but there is a wide range of craft-based modules which, combined with the high level of opportunity to engage in productive work, enable many students to attain high levels of proficiency. Many move on to further training in a specialised area and many proceed directly to professional theatre work in sound, lighting, costume or set design, as well as in acting and directing.
The emphasis on theatre practice is underpinned by work in two dedicated theatre spaces: the Donald Roy Theatre and the Studio Theatre. Both are fully-equipped adaptable spaces which makes possible a close interface between practice and scholarship and a large number of practical theatre projects: about 12 'main house' public productions and over 50 small-scale experimental pieces each year. The adaptability of the spaces facilitates experiments in theatre space, actor-audience relationships and the politics and aesthetics of performance. A student wishing to specialise in set design, lighting design, costume, sound or set construction might reasonably expect over three years to bring three or four projects to full realisation in public production and to have carried out a range of these responsibilities.
Formal practical courses available in the field of scenography include set design, model-making, set construction and working drawings, costume design, pattern making, lighting design, computerised lighting operation, rigging and focusing. Each first year student is required to serve as an ASM on at least one production. It is possible for a student to make other choices of practical course (acting, radio drama etc.) and it is equally possible for an intending scenographer to put together a package of modules which establishes a substantial basis for professional work. There are also 'academic' modules, taught as lecture and seminar courses in twentieth century stage design and general theatre history.