This course offers opportunities for students in the practical and academic understanding of the key areas of performance practice; the course considers and explores the developments of genres, styles, practitioners and performance techniques, from the past to the modern day, relating the influences each new era brings to the contemporary theatre scene; the course has a strong emphasis on developing students as practitioners and students participate in a wide variety of self-directed projects as well as full scale productions; topics covered include contemporary theatre, classical acting techniques, physical theatre, small scale touring, radio acting, and puppetry; there is a materials fee payable which covers the cost of theatre visits, costume, master class and venue hire; each year a trip abroad is organised to study theatre-making which requires additional payment at approximately �360.