British American
Drama Academy

Classes

Core courses

The following courses are to be taken by all students

Shakespeare: The Tragedies  A study of Shakespeare's tragic work, including the four great tragedies: Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear and Othello. The Course will include study of contemporary critical perspectives on Shakespeare (e.g. New Historicism, Gender Studies) and study of Shakespeare on film and television.

Dramatic Criticism  A series of discussions of productions seen each week. Discussion will be led by a leading London theatre critic.

All students must also select either

Theatre and Culture   A study of drama from 1900 to the present day relating the development of theatre to changes in society. Colleges may regard this as either a drama course or a theatre history course

or

Shakespeare: Comedies and Histories  A study of selected comedies and histories that will include contemporary critical perspectives on Shakespeare (e.g. New Historicism, Gender Studies) and study of Shakespeare on film and television.

Optional courses 

Students must select at least two of the following.

Acting Styles (Comedy)  Concentrated scene study from major periods of theatre history.  Among the styles explored are restoration comedy, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward and Joe Orton.

Special Studies in Acting: Shakespeare  Concentrated scene study of a number of Shakespeare plays.

Directing  An introduction to the craft of directing for the stage. The fundamentals of script analysis, interpretation and production research and preparation are explored together with the collaborative process.

Playwriting During this course writers will work on scripts which will be discussed, analysed and evaluated in terms of character development, dramatic structure and originality.

Shakespeare's Contemporaries  Study of the drama of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, exclusive of Shakespeare, but including such writers as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Beaumont and Fletcher