The full-time four-year course trains you to be a creative agent of change who uses your artistry to reveal and nurture the artistry in others.
You do not take separate subjects but instead work on a project basis; everything you learn is meaningful, has a direct connection with practice and has theoretical relevance. Helping to make you an educated and critical maker. You spend a lot of time on the floor and learn to work with different communities within society.
Theatre is a place where people share stories and reflect on vital questions and social issues. As a maker and educator, you work with others and during the course you acquire the necessary skills, such as acting, design and theatre making.
During the course, there are five central themes
International orientation is important, because it means you are presented with different contexts, so you are encouraged to do part of your course abroad. For instance, this coming year we will be going to Belfast for an 8-week elective module to experience the context there and to work in different communities. Sometimes a student chooses to study abroad for six months (Surinam, Uganda). We encourage students to develop and maintain international contacts.
Your lecturers work in teams rather than individually. The interesting thing about this is that you don’t get a grade. We test and assess in the round; there is no single lecturer with individual responsibility for an assessment, and the team assesses your portfolio of completed assignments jointly. This results in a more reliable form of assessment.
We don’t tell our students what to do, we give them plenty of room to find out for themselves what they want to develop. We also question them on that. We take our students very seriously.