University of Hull

Department of Drama and Music (Drama), Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX
Tel: 01482 466210
Fax: 01482 442290
Email: admissions@hull.ac.uk
Production & Stage Management Supervisor: A. Richard Tall

Description

At Hull, the syllabus for both Singles and Joint Honours students is designed, and the department equipped, to integrate all aspects of producing drama and theatre. Plays are studied not only in seminar and lecture but also in production; formal teaching is reinforced and illuminated by practical work in our performance spaces and to the public in our licensed main venue, the Donald Roy Theatre. At our department, technical, physical and intellectual skills are employed at one and the same time by engaging in theatre practice.

The Donald Roy Theatre is a versatile and adaptable theatre space, housing a fly tower and basement facilitating trapwork, the new refurbished seating enabling all formats of staging (traverse, thrust and in-the-round). We also have a second large performance space, the Anthony Minghella Studio, the newly improved Old Boilerhouse and several other rehearsal and performance spaces. Our technical facilities (equipped to near professional standards), include a large design and construction workshop, paintshop, wardrobe, several sound studios, design rooms including CAD/CAM design suite and everything you would expect from a working theatre. Students who are interested in technical theatre will leave with broad experience and knowledge of the required industry standard. Two thirds of our graduates go on to work in the related industries with over half of those working in theatre.