Performing arts degree courses and research
Whether you’re an aspiring actor, dancer, choreographer or director, our degrees offer a contemporary and challenging approach to subjects
“Taking something that we have created and we have written and we’ve shaped ourselves and to be able to bring that to different cultures, is a really exciting part of our work.”
Theatre and performance graduates have created their own successful touring theatre company, which features hilarious and accessible physical comedy
Undergraduate performing arts degrees
- ? Discover a range of practices from theatre, dance and ritual to popular entertainment and community contexts
- ? Explore and evaluate the relationship between performer and audience
- ? Benefit from strong links with the Theatre Royal, Dance in Devon, The Barbican Theatre and Plymouth Dance
Purpose-built £7 million theatre on campus
The House is a state-of-the art, award-winning and fully-accessible facility with a 200-seater auditorium, a studio theatre and rehearsal spaces.
Postgraduate and research opportunities
Performance. Experience. Presence (P.E.P) research group
Sharing interests in embodiment, experience, training and cultural representation, our research manifests through creating and analysing performance. We encompass researchers of theatre, dance, live art and interdisciplinary performance practices.
Our PEP Talks series of research seminars is scheduled throughout the academic year and research students organise their own conferences and events.
Learn more about the work carried out by PEP, our theatre, dance and performing arts research group
