This Theatre and Drama degree invites you to explore theatre making. You’ll integrate practice and theory, work with play texts, and devise and link personal creativity with ensemble-based artistic collaboration. You will investigate approaches, conventions and theories connected to theatre and drama through studio practice and academic research. Our range of modules enables you to study acting, directing, theatre and performance histories and theories, voice and movement, devising, ensemble practice, theatre production, applied drama, practice as research, and more. The flexible nature of our course means you can focus on your personal interests and career goals. Studying drama in Cardiff, you will benefit from being in the centre of a booming arts industry, from television production to independent arts venues, surrounded by countless opportunities during your drama course and after graduation. In practical workshops you’ll explore a variety of approaches to theatre from the perspective of the actor, director, deviser, facilitator and writer. In lectures and seminars, you will discuss and debate a broad spectrum of theatre and drama, including historical approaches, theories and ideas about theatre and theatre-making, and performances in different parts of the world. You’ll have the opportunity to study topics in which staff have specialist expertise such as site-specific and offsite performance, adaptation, scriptwriting, physical theatre, theatre and science/ action, horror performance, Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, and musical theatre, among others. Theatre and drama graduates follow a wide range of careers. Many are employed in the media entertainment industries; others choose to start up their own production companies, while some enter the teaching profession. The flexible and inclusive nature of the drama course ensures that our graduates have a highly developed range of transferable skills. This enhances their employability and career potential. Graduates can further their studies by applying for one of our postgraduate degrees.