Acting and Performance

About this course

Acting and performance is a discipline concerned with the craft of inhabiting characters and creating live theatrical experiences for audiences, and with the rigorous technical and imaginative training that makes that craft possible. The conservatoire tradition of actor training, which this two-year programme at Queen Margaret University draws on, emphasises the development of voice, body, imagination and emotional intelligence as the foundations of professional performance, alongside the interpretive and collaborative skills that working in professional theatre and screen demands. At Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, this two-year BA programme is designed specifically for entrants from college, building on prior performance training with a rich and varied curriculum that provides distinctive actor training in the conservatoire tradition, as the university describes. The programme is

Where its graduates go

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• 18 / 100Teaching Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →

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