Music and Theatre BA at Royal Holloway, University of London

BA Music and Theatre at Royal Holloway combines two major complementary performing arts. This joint degree will prepare you for a career in areas such as acting, music, broadcasting, stage management, or arts administration. You’ll be studying at one of the largest Drama and Theatre departments in the world. And our Music department is the only one in the country to hold a prestigious Regius Professorship.

Department: Drama and Theatre  |  Duration: 3 years full time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Egham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core modules: Year 1: Theatre and Performance Making 1, Theatre and Text 1; Year 2: Making Musical Theatre. Optional modules: Year 1: Theory and Analysis, Fundamentals of Music Theory, Creative Composition Techniques, Practical Composition Skills, A Very Short History of Music and others; Year 2: Theatre and Performance Making: Devising, Theatre and Performance Making: Theatre Directing, Theatre and Performance Making: Acting for Camera, Theatre and Performance Making: Dance and Theatre, Theatre and Performance Making: Scenography and others; Studies in Music Analysis, Studies in Composition, Studies in Music History, Studies in Ethnomusicology, Studies in Music, Media and Technology and others; Year 3: Love, Gender and Sexuality, Race Relations in Theatre, Film and Television, Shakespeare, Naturalist Theatre in Context, Creative Learning and Theatre and others.

Career pathways

Our graduates go into a wide variety of careers, as well as further academic study. Many go into acting, stage management, broadcasting (including at the BBC), arts administration, journalism, teaching, health, marketing, and PR.

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