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The Theatre Design programme offers a highly creative preparation for a successful career in theatre and associated live and recorded performance events. You will experience the total design process from the initial creative dialogue, through visualisation to full performance. Placing equal emphasis on costume and set design, you will learn to respond visually and creatively to stimuli ranging from text and character to music, shape and movement. The programme will also develop your professional awareness and understanding of the responsibilities of the designer through a comprehensive programme of classes, projects and public performances.

Working in dedicated design studio spaces, you will gain skills in research, critical analysis and communication. Collaboration across all programmes is key and you will team up with students from all the production disciplines on fully realised productions in a variety of public venues. The expertise of a wide range of visiting lecturers and practitioners from the performance industries is at your disposal and our industry links are excellent, so your second-year work placement module could be with a major theatre company or a leading practitioner of design.

The Programme at a glance

Over three years, you will:

• Be introduced to the fundamentals of set and costume design
• Undertake design projects led by practising professional designers and directors
• Learn to analyse plays and other source material, and to develop, visualise and realise an imaginative response to that material
• Develop skills in drawing, model making, 3D visualisation
• Work with your peers from other programmes on group projects, exploring ideas within the collaborative process of theatre making
• Extend your learning through conceptual design projects and peer group collaborative productions
• Design at least two fully realised productions in a variety of public venues
• Undertake a substantial research project into a design subject of your choice
• Have the opportunity for a work placement in the industry or a period of study abroad.

Duration

3 Years.

Term Start

September, 2010.

Entry Requirements

A-Levels, BTEC or equivalent. All applicants are invited for interview (portfolio required). See Admissions information for more details.

How to Apply

Please apply through UCAS:
Institution code name: Rose
Institution application code: R51
Programme code: W460

Career Progression

Graduates have gone on to work as designers for main-house, touring, opera, film, fringe and theatre-in-education companies and as design assistants, interior designers and model makers. Several have also taken up postgraduate studies.