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On Course: Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

On the back of the highly successful MA Musical Theatre, RWCMD is now offering BA (Hons) Musical Theatre with a September 2021 intake. Heidi McEntee speaks to Vivien Care, Musical Theatre Course Leader, about the new programme.

VC: The course is three years’ comprehensive Musical Theatre training; everything that you would expect in terms of modules in acting, singing, all the forms of dance and movement, spoken voice and professional studies.

The programme is couched in the department of Acting, which has its own established reputation. We have students all over the BBC, Netflix, theatres around the country and, indeed, world. I am really proud that we are able to deliver the same calibre of acting training to our musical theatre students.

Excitingly, we've got a new module called Creative Process, where students work directly with writers, composers, production companies; we're going to be examining the reasons why we make theatre at all and who our audiences are. What are we making it for? Are we making it for ourselves, our audiences, or is it a response to what's going on culturally and socially? Do we have a social responsibility or a responsibility to the community?

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