BA (Hons) Theatre Design - BA (Hons) Degree
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design, Burton Street, Nottingham, NT1 4BU
Tel: 0115 848 8284
Fax: 0115 848 6403
Email: artanddesign@ntu.ac.uk
Subject Administrator: Chris Green
Course Description:
Theatre
Design is a creative discipline involving imagination, the intellect
and many skills in realising the visual context for performance.
Designers are artists who enjoy working collaboratively and are as
excited by words, performance and research as they are by painting,
sculpture, fashion and architecture. The Theatre Designer is
responsible for the visual realisation of theatre production,
employing technical, communicative and managerial skills with
resourcefulness, intellectual rigour and energy. The work is
demanding, rewarding and exciting. The course provides for the
exploration of many aspects of traditional and contemporary theatre
practice, encouraging the development of individual artistic
responses and abilities.
Year 1: Students progress through
a sequence of projects introducing scenic and property making
techniques, lighting, costume design and construction, object based
performance and puppetry. Theatre Design projects encourage students
to draw on knowledge and skills to produce designs for potential
productions in the form of scale set models, costume and property
designs and storyboards.
Year 2: Options offered cover all
areas of design for performance, including small-scale touring,
contemporary playwriting and performance devising, puppetry, costume
design and construction. Scene painting and property-making are
developed through projects which may involve commissioned work for
outside bodies and companies.
Year
3: Students develop their work in further areas defined through
previous study, continuing to choose from the project options. All
students undertake an area of realised work where they may be
responsible for designing, making/supervising costumes, scene
painting, prop-making or lighting, often for a public production. The
choice of area covered by this, along with the specific productions,
is made by each student from a range of negotiated collaborations.
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