You will have the opportunity to experience a wide range of performing arts training. This includes voice, movement, dance, singing, acting for stage and screen, research, devising and improvisation. Tutors are active researchers and professional actors, writers and directors. Throughout the course, there will be a balance between modules based on performing arts theory and those involving practical activities and skill development. You will be introduced to analysis and criticism in all of the main areas of the performing arts and will gain a wide experience of practical training. The course is delivered at our new Ayr Campus, which is equipped with state-of-the-art television, music and performance studios. You will not only benefit from the professional practice of your tutors but guest lecturers as well. Study is normally timetabled for three days a week over two trimesters and you will be given ample notice of extra rehearsal time required for the production aspects of the course.

Graduates will gain access to a wide range of professions related to performance in stage and screen. They will enter the job market not as passive actors awaiting a phone call from a casting agent, but as trained, motivated individuals capable of marketing themselves within the creative industries. Our graduates find work in acting; directing; producing; writing for stage and screen; designing and delivering community theatre projects; forming theatre and film companies; or training to become primary school teachers or secondary school drama teachers