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Drama at Manchester

Drama Students
Manchester has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its research into Performance, Applied Theatre and Screen Studies.We have some of the country's leading researchers and practitioners of drama who publish regularly and seek to promote a research culture at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Drama at Manchester has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its research into Performance, Applied Theatre and Screen Studies. We have some of the countrys leading researchers and practitioners of drama who publish regularly and seek to promote a research culture at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

The integration of research and teaching forms an important and dynamic centre to all our work. Drama was awarded a 5 (internationally excellent) for its research in the last national Research Assessment Exercise and was also rated as excellent in the 1997 national assessment of teaching of drama.

Manchester presents a range of drama programmes covering its main areas of interest :

It also has drama programmes with other components - English and Music. Some universities offer courses that are purely vocational - a training for potential actors, designers or directors. Others offer a mix of training and academic study in different proportions. Manchester has its own particular academic emphasis and you should understand what that is if you are considering applying for a drama programme here. It is important that you choose carefully when applying for any drama course.

Plays and productions are mounted in the John Thaw Studio Theatre, while Theatre in Prisons and Theatre in Education perform to their own special audiences and in specific sites (including museums and historic sites as well as schools). Although we expect all students to perform in a closed workshop environment at some stage, acting ability is not a prerequisite for study at Manchester and we do not offer actor training.

Drama also offers undergraduate students the opportunity of spending the second semester of their second year of study at a university in Australia or the United States, with which The University of Manchester has exchange programmes.

We are very proud of the professional profiles of our ex-students. The qualities of creative imagination and research skills which we aim to teach are valued by a range of employers and our graduates have made successful careers in a wide variety of occupations, including:

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