What you can study

Theatre and performance studies at Bristol is distinctive for blending study of historical contexts and theoretical perspectives with practice-based activities and investigations. You'll study with innovative and enthusiastic pioneers in everything from Shakespeare to contemporary performance practices, and use our two in-house theatres for your presentations. Bristol is an exciting place to be a theatre student, with theatres, venues and festivals around the city staging a huge variety of performances of every genre.

You will find units on:

• practice-based performance
• performance history and politics
• adaptation and translation
• diverse periods

Pre-requisites

At UK universities, students specialise from their first year and rarely take units outside their degree subject. This means that:

• Year 1 units are suitable for all students.
• Year 2 units require some university study in the discipline.
• Year 3 units require a strong background in the discipline.

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3