BA (Hons) Acting and Performance at Solent University

Whether it’s treading the boards, or taking your mark in front of a camera, our acting and performance degree gives you the freedom to follow your dream, with real-world experience in the industry. On this exciting course you'll develop key professional acting skills, gain theoretical knowledge of stage and screen acting (with no formal exams), and build a performance portfolio to showcase your talents in a supportive learning environment. You'll learn essential acting techniques for stage and screen, as well as body and voice skills, approaches to the history of performance, and theories of performance, ensuring you are confident working across stage, screen and emerging media.

Faculty: Music and performing arts  |  Duration: 3 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: 2027 entry  |  Location: Southampton, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core modules include Curtain Up, The Actor's Technical Toolkit, Improvise and Devise, Performing in Digital Media, Period Acting for Stage and Screen, The Big Play, Acting in the Community, Industry Ready, Theatre Maker Festival: Professional Partnership, Innovation Lab, That's Entertainment. Optional modules include Directing, Finding Your Voice, Performing Arts Education.

Career pathways

The nature of this degree prepares students for a career in the performing arts by producing adaptable, reflective practitioners capable of shaping and responding to current and future performance landscapes. Our alumni have gone on to postgraduate studies, teaching, cruise ship entertaining, theatre and/or screen acting, theatre in education, children’s’ entertaining, and more.

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