Overview
Overview
This major equips you with the creative practice and the theory you need to perform both on and off the stage. It is a comprehensive training ground for passionate theatre artists.
At Curtin, you will benefit from studying in the longest-established theatre arts course in Western Australia. You’ll develop the full range of fundamental skills, theoretical understanding, and practical experience in theatre and performance practice. These include:
- acting
- directing
- writing and devising
- dramaturgy
- critical analysis
- stage management
- theatre production.
You’ll have the opportunity to work on five major productions and up to 25 student-directed productions each year. Staged on campus and in venues around Perth, these productions range from classical drama to contemporary works.
You’ll also learn from artists-in-residence who have professional production experience, and you can apply your skills in the Hayman Theatre Company’s on-campus public production program.
Theatre Arts is offered as part of the Bachelor of Creative Arts.
You can also study Theatre Arts as part of a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce double degree.
What jobs can the Theatre Arts course lead to?
Careers
- Actor
- Stage / film / TV director
- Performing arts technician
- Playwright
- Production crew
- Stage manager
Industries
- Theatre and screen
- Screen advertising
What you'll learn
- apply knowledge of the discipline of Theatre Arts to creative practice, production, practice-led research and interpretation. Conduct both theoretical and practice-led research methods to synthesis and evaluate diverse sources of information.
- identify and initiate ways to develop performance skills and experience in order to develop learning; engage in critical and reflective practice in theory and practice to generate new knowledge and create original performance.
- communicate and articulate ideas critically and practically applying appropriate contemporary Theatre Arts technologies, with an understanding of how voice, gesture, space and other staging techniques communicate meaning.
- identify, engage and apply global perspectives within the fields of performance and performance making.
- recognise the vital contribution of inter-cultural approaches to performance and performance making and demonstrate respect for Indigenous values, cultures and knowledges cultural.
- initiate individual and collaborative projects based on a sound knowledge of the principles of the Theatre Arts field and best professional practice
