Modules

Fourth Monkey’s BA (Hons) Acting degree was designed by professional and experienced actors, directors, theatre makers, practitioners and scholars who are passionate about actor training and have a wealth of contemporary experience both nationally and internationally. Your course continues to be driven, taught, and shaped by their first-hand and diverse contact with the industry and their up-to-date understanding of the pertinent and most relevant disciplines vital for a creative and sustainable professional career within the contemporary industry. It is our intention for you as an individual to be celebrated and to thrive. Through rigorous actor training, self-exploration and performance excellence you will ‘learn by doing’ in a range of classes, masterclasses and performance seasons that will guide you to being industry-ready in two years with the ability to ACT, MAKE, MOVE, and COLLABORATE. Throughout your training, you will work practically in the studio and in a schedule of varied classes throughout the week. This ensures that you are consistently engaging holistically across your skillset to develop and sustain the capacity, dexterity and performance fitness (mental and physical) required for professional acting work, and congruent with the life of an actor/maker. Alongside introductions to key artistic, socio-political and philosophical principles, there are numerous in-camera and public performance opportunities within our theatre, on film and at other sites, including a West End venue for your final year industry showcase. The ethos of this BA (Hons) Acting course is to afford opportunity for everyone to develop their own expressive and interpretive skills as an actor who seeks out physical and emotional truth in all they do. You will graduate with the necessary skills to work in classical and contemporary theatre, television, film, radio and the digital world, as well as being an accomplished artist in your own right as a maker of your own work. Students are entitled to full Equity status upon graduation and qualify for inclusion on Graduate Spotlight as a key part of their professional progression to industry in the final year of study. Level 4 Modules - Core Principles & Application: • Discovering What Moves Me... • Play! • What Am I? • Technique Into Performance • Expressive Exploration • Creating My Own Work Level 5 Modules - Expansion & Professional Perspectives: • Widening Technical Practice • Performance Projects • Professional Preparation • Contemporary Techniques • Integrated Performance Level 6 Modules - Industry Facing... & Velocity!: • Contemporary Industry Season & Showcase • Professional & Media Portfolio • Creative Classical Project • Experimental Performance Project ENHANCEMENT ACTIVITIES Alongside the practical training within the core modules, you also have enhancement opportunities which surround the core delivery within the study blocks in the form of boot camps. These opportunities serve to focus you physically and mentally for the term ahead; encourage our multi-disciplinary ethos; widen your perspective,; and enhance your engagement with the profession. These sessions will sometimes include practical/physical skills which are assessed for a qualification outside the degree e.g. Stage Combat, guest workshops, or Q&A sessions/masterclasses from visiting professionals. Programme structures and modules can change as part of our curriculum enhancement and review processes. If a certain module is important to you, please discuss it with the Course Leader.