BA Drama, Theatre and Performance
About this course
BA (Hons) in Performance and design for theatre and screen, combining theatrical production with screen studies. Core topics include Research Methods. Classes are taught in facilities including the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.
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Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: 30 points
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What students say
Based on about 10 final-year students who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Teaching on my course: 100%
- Learning opportunities: 92%
- Assessment and feedback: 86%
- Academic support: 100%
- Organisation and management: 95%
- Learning resources: 87%
- Student voice: 87%
Do students stay on the course?
Based on about 25 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Continued on course: 100%
What graduates do next
Based on about 8 graduates who answered (a small group: a rough guide only)
- Working: 85%
- Unemployed: 15%
Most common jobs
- Teaching Professionals: 20%
- Elementary occupations: 20%
- Artistic, literary and media occupations: 20%
- Leisure, travel and related personal service occupations: 10%
- Sales occupations: 10%
- Find their work meaningful: 75%
- Feel on track for their future plans: 60%
- Use what they learnt on the course: 60%
Where graduates work (5 years on)
Based on about 20 graduates, across similar courses at this university (a small group: a rough guide only)
- East Midlands: 5%
- East of England: 20%
- London: 45%
- South East: 20%
- South West: 10%
Who gets in
Based on about 10 students who started (a small group: a rough guide only)
- A levels: 100%
Accreditation & quality ratings
TEF 2023 (whole university): Silver overall, Bronze for student experience, Silver for student outcomes.
Modules
- Staging Plays
- Theatre and Ideas
- Making Performance
- Theatre at Work
- Contemporary Performance Project
- Critical Theory and Performance
- Acting: The Process
- Adaptation: Filming Fiction
- Debates in Screen Documentary
- Film Musicals
- History and Practice of Songwriting
- In the Embers of Empire: Reading Postcolonial Texts Today
- Media and Sustainability
- Pop Culture: Representation and Consumption
- Writing Fiction
- Arts and Lifestyle Journalism
- British Cinema
- Chinese Cinema
- Directing Screen Performance
- Latin American Cinema: Contemporary Trends and Movements
- Performing Practices
- Pop Life: After Modern Art
- Right Here! Right Now! Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture
- Sound, Culture & Society
- Staging the Renaissance: Shakespeare
- Writing for Theatre
- Writing Poetry
- Drama Professional Work Experience
- Drama Dissertation
- Final Year Performance Festival
- Art and Politics in Britain 2008-Now
- Celebrity, Media and Culture
- Feminism and Digital Culture
- Philosophy of Art & Literature
- Pop Soundtrack Cinema
- Public Relations
- Social Media, Activism and Advocacy
- Topics in African American Literature
- Video Games: Writing, World-Building
- Writing Race, Gender, and the Social: Experiments Beyond Representation
- American Teen Cinema: Coming of Age on Screen
- Cinema and Sexualities
- Decolonial Literature, Politics, Writing
- Film and Revolution
- Gender, Race and Society in Early Modern Drama
- Queer Fictions
- Site Specific Project
- Something Else! Writing Adaptations & Transmedia Stoytelling
- Writing the Environment
Questions about this course
How much do graduates of BA Drama, Theatre and Performance at University of Sussex earn?
The median salary is £19,500 after 3 years, £29,000 after 5 years. After five years the middle half of graduates earn between £23,500 and £34,500. The £29,000 median after five years is £5,000 more than the UK median for Drama.
What do graduates of BA Drama, Theatre and Performance at University of Sussex do next?
85% were in work or further study 15 months after finishing (Graduate Outcomes 2023-24).
Are students happy with the teaching on BA Drama, Theatre and Performance at University of Sussex?
100% of final-year students were positive about the teaching in the National Student Survey 2025-26.
What grades do I need for BA Drama, Theatre and Performance at University of Sussex?
The typical offer is BBB at A level, or 30 points in the IB. The average entrant had 132 UCAS points.
Does BA Drama, Theatre and Performance at University of Sussex include a placement year or year abroad?
The course has an optional placement year and an optional year abroad.
How many students continue on BA Drama, Theatre and Performance at University of Sussex?
100% of students continued into their second year, and 0% left higher education.