BA (Hons) Drama: Musical Theatre Bachelor's degree at Goldsmiths, University of London

This module introduces you to fundamental practices in musical theatre training, including movement and dance, acting, and voice (with singing as a core component). It establishes a foundational skill set that you will continue to develop throughout the degree. In particular, you will develop core skills to support safe and sustainable vocal technique for both speech and singing; and engage with action-based acting practices, developing an understanding of how character, intention, and action ar

Performing Making Skills introduces the foundational principles of contemporary performance making. Through studio workshops and practical making sessions, you will explore how performance takes form through bodies, materials, ensembles and space. You will explore how performance is generated, shaped, rehearsed and shared. The module emphasises curiosity, experimentation, dramaturgical thinking, collective responsibility and creative responsiveness.

Performance Making 1 builds on the work undertaken in Performance Making Skills by offering you the oppportuntity to put these skills into practice in the creation of a short group performance. You will also gain practical experience of the relationship between the different roles that make up a theatre company, where you will be able to explore such roles as director, scenographer, choreographer, and stage management, within either a collaborative, devising process (Acting and Performance Makin

The module aims to explore the topic of critical writing generally and in discipline-specific contexts so you can continually develop your skills by applying them to your ongoing critical and creative work. You will learn critical writing as a skill that helps you to develop your research and creative practice alongside the completion of academic work. You will learn to critical analyse and evaluate existing texts and your own work through a diversity of critical perspectives.

In this module you will develop your practical understanding of, and critical perspective on, the ways in which creative work is commercially produced, disseminated and 'consumed'. You will gain an overview of the contemporary creative industries' foundational concepts, occupational roles, stakeholders, organizations, business practices and personalities. As well as studying dominant modes of industrial production and consumption, you will consider practices through which creators and their supp

In Developing Your Craft, you will workshop a new piece of musical theatre - understanding how muscial theatre is developed while also building on related skills in performance and dramaturgy. You will work in small companies to produce, rehearse and present a new work of musical theatre (comprised of dialogue scenes, songs, and choreographed/blocked movement). You will build on the learning of earlier writing exercises to explore the process of bringing new musical theatre pieces to life. As yo

Performance Making Modes builds on the core skills that you acquired on your first year Performance Making modules and offers you opportunities to go in depth in your chosen mode of performance making. Across the module, you will consider histories of representation (including associated political and ethical questions) and be introduced to a range of ground breaking and/or experimental performance practices through a combination of seminars, workshops and practical making sessions. You will cho

Performance Making 2 supports you in putting the skills and experiments you have explored during the Autumn term into practice through the creation of a short group performance of original material. In doing this, you will also gain your first experience of working as a small company where you will take on a specific role of your choosing and will gain more specialist skills and experience in this area. As such, this module is the culmination of your work in Year 2 of the degree. You will develo

This Module will introduce you to some of the key theories, concerns and methods for designing and facilitating participatory arts workshops in a range of socially engaged contexts. You will work in small groups to design and deliver a workshop that critically speaks to a chosen theme and a participant community that you seek to collaborate with. Through a series of workshops that explore the underlying themes of facilitation practice, you will be invited to engage with pedagogic theory and issu

This modules aims to equip you with the skills to: Situate theatre and performance genres and movements in their historical, cultural and political contexts, taking account of their relationship to other art forms; Approach and conceptualise theatre and performance histories from a range of perspectives and contexts, engaging with both primary and secondary resources; Develop analytical, evaluative and communicative skills in expressing coherent insights and arguments. On the module, you will ch

This module focuses on audition preparations and protocol, best practices for self-tapes, agent representation, and broader issues related to the musical theatre industry. It will help you prepare to enter the musical theatre industry. We explore paths of entry; ways of shaping a professional life in the field; best practices for seeking, and interacting with, agents; protocols at auditions and in self-tapes; issues in contracts and labour. You will prepare work for auditions, pitches and agents

This module will act as a testing-ground for experimental approaches to performance-making across multiple disciplines. You will be encouraged to explore, to take risks, to be self-reflexive and critically engaged. You will engage in in-depth thinking and making through a series of lectures, workshop/seminars, as well as through related self-led learning tasks and critical reading/viewing. This module will allow you to elect a specialism from a rotating selection of options. For example: Devised