Design for Performance, BA

at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Year 1: Key Skills
 

• Completion of several units allowing the development of core skills and a clear understanding of what performance and performance design are through a series of taught classes, workshops and realised projects

• Contact with the professional world as part of the course from the start

• You will work on a number of collaborative projects that encompass installation and immersive and traditional contexts in which to design.
   

Year 2: Developing individual design processes
 

• Developing individual design processes to a near-professional level through a series of assignments, during which you will work with directors on speculative design projects using texts and opera

• Assignments can also include completing a professional placement with a practitioner or company, or designing a realised performance within Central.
   

Year 3: Professional Development
 

• Focus on professional development: applying and refining design practice on Central’s public productions, as well as smaller scale professional productions, as appropriate

• You will finalise areas of professional interest and identity and participate in a public exhibition presenting your work to invited industry employers and others.

Our standard academic entry requirements range between 120 and 64 UCAS tariff points. You can see how many tariff points your qualifications would gain on the UCAS Tariff Calculator. International qualifications and others not covered within the UCAS tariff can also be accepted.
 

Please note that we make lower offers (including unconditional) to exceptional candidates and those who have alternative or prior experience to offer. All candidates invited to interview are asked to bring a portfolio. Interview and portfolio are key factors in determining which applicants are accepted on to the course.

English Language Requirements

Applicants for whom English is not their first language are required to prove their English language proficiency by gaining an overall score of 7.0 in an IELTS test. We do accept equivalent English language qualifications. Applicants are advised to gain this certification as early as possible and more information can be found
 

The fees for Design for Performance, BA  may vary from £20,000 to £35,000 annually for tuition fees. The fee's prices may get higher for International Students.

Graduate employment and career pathways include:
 

• Designer, National Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, The Place, Southwark Playhouse, Riverside Studios.
• Design Assistant, Sadler’s Wells, National Theatre Design Office, Dreamthinkspeak.
• Emerging Artist, National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta), Art of Regeneration. Interdisciplinary Artist and Scenographer, BRAVENEWWORLDs.
• Art Department Assistant, Thin Man Films, BBC Drama The Interceptor, feature films including Muppets Most Wanted, One Day and Mr Turner.
• Production Designer, Long Forgotten Fields.
• The Linbury Prize for Stage Design 2015.
• First runner-up in the Hermione Hammond Drawing Award 2013.