English Literature and Theatre, Acting & Performance

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English Literature and Theatre, Acting & Performance

BA (Hons)

Immerse yourself in the world of performance, where you'll not only refine your acting skills but also explore a rich variety of texts, craft original pieces, and bring powerful themes and concepts to life on stage.

UCAS Code: WQ43

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Delve into the relationship between literature and performance, where your analytical skills will unlock fresh interpretations of texts and stylistic nuances of plays. You'll be inspired to stage work in unconventional spaces, guided by your growing creative and critical insight.

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Overview

Studying English Literature and Theatre, Acting and Performance allows you to develop as a performer while exploring literature from the sixteenth century to the present day. Our teaching team will encourage you to analyse plays and prose, then apply your understanding of character, theme and context to your own performances. From Elizabethan drama to contemporary theatre, you’ll explore how literature and performance reflect and shape society.

Most of your learning will take place in small group seminars and practical workshops, giving you the chance to collaborate closely with your course mates. During these sessions you’ll have access to industry-level theatre spaces and editing suites and be encouraged to perform in both traditional and unconventional venues.

In your final year, you will undertake either a final performance project or literary dissertation, allowing you to take your interests further with a topic or genre of your choice. Our students have received recognition for the quality of their research in Literature dissertations considered for the Early Modern Research Group Prize for Interdisciplinary Research.

You’ll study in – and explore the literary heritage of – an ancient Cathedral city. Our students benefit from research trips to the Cathedral Library, with its priceless collection of rare books and manuscripts and are given opportunities to perform in local theatres and community spaces.

Placements

In your second year, you can choose to develop and complete your own project, giving you the chance to apply the skills and knowledge you've gained from your degree in a real-world setting. With support from academic staff, the Students' Union, the Careers Service, and community or business partners, you'll design a project that reflects your interests and career goals.

The project is flexible, with around 36 hours completed over 12 weeks alongside your studies. Through this experience, you'll gain valuable practical experience, develop professional skills, and explore how the study of English Literature can be applied beyond university.

In your third year, you will have the option to complete our work experience module with options to try various theatre-related roles, including stage management, theatre in education, arts marketing and acting.

Our students have attended many successful professional placements including:

Mask workshops with Vamos Theatre

Stage management for Malvern Theatres

Acted for Reaction Theatre Makers

Supporting youth and community groups

For some students, this module leads to a career with their placement organisation.

Course content

Each year you will study a mix of mandatory and optional modules. Our diverse curriculum, taught by active writers and performers, will allow you to explore many different literary themes and eras before you choose your dissertation specialism in Year Three.

We regularly review our courses to reflect the latest research and developments in the subject area, as well as feedback from students, employers and the wider sector. As a result, modules may change to ensure the course remains current and relevant. Optional modules will run if enough students choose to study them. It is not guaranteed that all modules will be offered every year.

Year 1Mandatory modules

Devising & Physical Theatre

Plays in Performance

Literary Forms and Genres

Ways of Reading, Ways of Writing

Writing Worcester Past and Present

Our course has been designed with your future in mind, meaning you’ll graduate with valuable transferrable skills in critical thinking, storytelling, performance, collaboration and communication. Our graduates go on to work in the arts, set up their own companies, or pursue careers where strong writing, research and presentation skills are valued.

A degree in English Literature and Theatre, Acting & Performance could be your first step toward your career as a:

Publishing proofreader

Digital copywriter

Web content manager

Performers

Theatre technicians

Voice actors

Arts marketers

Opportunities to progress

You may wish to take your learning further and progress onto postgraduate study. Relevant postgraduate degrees at Worcester include:

English MA

English Literature and Language MPhil/PhD

Drama and Performance MPhil/PhD

PGCE Secondary English

Course highlights

Earn as you learn

You'll get the opportunity to take part in paid performance projects. Our students have performed commissioned theatre productions for schools and delivered drama workshops for children and community groups.

Teaching and assessment

Our course has been designed by academics and practitioners to prepare you for a career in the arts. Our teaching has an emphasis on academic skills and developing technical, digital theatre and stage management skills.

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Programme specification

You are taught through a combination of practical workshops, lectures and seminars. The course aims to teach theory through practice so your practical work is integrated with reference to relevant texts and journals and lectures providing a context for each module.

In addition, meetings with personal academic tutors are scheduled on at least 4 occasions in the first year and three occasions in each of the other years of a course.

Meet the team

Get to know a few of the Institute of Arts and Humanities lecturers you'll be learning with.

Dr Sharon Young

Dr Sharon Young is a Fellow of the HEA and her teaching interests include, Renaissance, Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, women's poetry, and literary theory.

Sharon's research focuses mainly on women's poetry of the early modern period, Renaissance revenge tragedy and women's manuscript culture. Sharon has published on female poets and the critical debates of the early eighteenth century and Mary Leapor.

Dr Ildikó Rippel

Ildikó is a performer, writer and lecturer. She is co-founder and artistic director of Anglo-German performance company Zoo Indigo, devising autobiographical performance that engages with social and political themes of gender, cultural identity, displacement and migration. Zoo Indigo’s work combines dark humour, song and multimedia in a postmodern and kaleidoscopic approach, producing politically charged performances.

Dr Daniel Somerville

Daniel Somerville is an artist practitioner, senior lecturer and practice researcher. His research interests are in the fields of performance, theatre, gender and opera studies, with particular focus on the concept of the ‘operatic’ and how it manifests in terms of movement, performance practice and convention, and how this may be applied to contemporary performance making. As an artist practitioner he has choreographed, directed and performed nationally (including at Edinburgh Fringe, The Place, Chisenhale Dance Space and Duckie in London, and for Birmingham Rep) and internationally (including National Theatre Namibia, Market Theatre - Johannesburg, Liberdade Provisoria - Lisbon and on a tour of the Czech Republic).

Dr Lucy Arnold

Dr Lucy Arnold is a specialist in Contemporary literature, with particular research interests in contemporary gothic, narratives of haunting, contemporary women’s writing and psychoanalytic criticism. Her teaching experience spans a wide range of periods and genres but focusses on twentieth and twenty-first century literature.

Her published work to date has concerned the writing of Booker Prize winning novelist Hilary Mantel. Her debut monograph, Reading Hilary Mantel: Haunted Decades (Bloomsbury, 2019) was followed in 2026 by Hilary Mantel ('Writers and their Work', Liverpool University Press). Her third book, Little Strangers: The Spectral Child in Contemporary Literature, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury in 2027.

Entry requirements

UCAS tariff points required: 104Typical Offer

Qualification

BTEC National Extended Diploma

We do accept Access to HE Diplomas and other qualifications which may not exactly match the combinations above. Work out your estimated points with the UCAS tariff calculator.

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If you have any questions about entry requirements, please call our Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk.

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UK and EU students

The standard fee for full-time home and EU undergraduate students on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the academic year 2027/28 is £10,050 per year.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and may increase each year for both new and continuing students.

more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.

The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the academic year 2027/28 is £17,700 per year.

Student success

Find out more about what our students have gone on to.

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Course leader for the BA Theatre, Acting and Performancei.rippel@worc.ac.uk

Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Course Leader for MA English and MA Cultural Studies and Admissions Tutors.young@worc.ac.uk

Admissions Officeadmissions@worc.ac.uk01905 855111

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Sep 2027 - Worcester

UK and EU £10,050International £17,700

3 years full-time (part-time option available)

Placement available

Study abroad available

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