Technical Theatre and Stage Management

This course is designed to equip students with the skills needed to pursue roles in the technical theatre and stage management industry. The course offers a high degree of practical experience to take students through the various grades of technical theatre and stage management with the ultimate goal of students entering the profession after completion. Upon completion of the programme students will have a considerable amount of experience working on our vast output of public performances with professional directors; students will also have a sizeable portfolio of work which will help them to gain employment. Students will study a broad range of areas before moving into an area for specialism. This will be facilitated by a core team of technical professionals and a wider range of industry freelancers. This will help to create relationships for future employment in the sector.

The course structure is as follows:

Level 4 – Skills: Technical This level involves the consolidation of current skills, identifying knowledge gaps, and the acquisition of new skills, ensuring a level playing field of technical skill amongst students on the programme.

Level 5 – Challenges: Operation and Design

Students will be introduced to the principles of design and begin to specialise in their selected fields. They will have opportunities to lead a team and they will apply the skills learnt in Level 4 to a variety of live production scenarios.

Level 6 – Professional: Specialism and Employability

In their final year students choose to specialise in their chosen field. The two typical discipline strands in the sector are Operation and Design, or Stage Management and Operation. Students have the opportunity to specialise in a particular operative discipline in the module ‘Major Project’, develop themselves professionally via work-based learning in the module ‘Professional Development’, and work on a production management and design project to create a full-scale production concept from scratch.