About MA Performance Training in University of Plymouth

Are you an emergent theatre and performance maker wishing to advance your career as a practitioner, instructor or critic? Hone your performance skills and enhance your knowledge of performance training processes. You’ll develop the confidence and ability to understand and analyse the nature of performance within a thriving artistic and research community. We’ll help you realise your potential through a deep level of practical investigation, experimentation and discovery.

Key features

• Take advantage of our stunning, new, multi-million pound, purpose-built performing arts facility, The House.
• Choose to study full time over one year, or take the flexible two-year part-time pathway to fit in with your career plans or other commitments.
• Work in a vibrant interdisciplinary arts and research community where you’ll mix with staff and students from across the arts faculty creating opportunities for collaborative performance and practice-based research. This includes colleagues from areas such as theatre and performance, dance, music and creative writing.
• Benefit from mentorship and teaching by highly skilled practitioners and scholars.
• Make use of the close links we have fostered with leading theatre companies and professional artists while you’re with us, and gain extra experience that will open up your career prospects. 
• Engage with Plymouth’s vibrant theatre and performance scene with The Arts Institute, Theatre Royal Plymouth and Barbican Theatre Plymouth, alongside events and workshops arranged by the department itself. In the past visitors have included included Action Hero, Low Profile, John Nettles, Wildworks, Lone Twin, Earthfall and Robert Lyons.

Academic qualification equivalents

We require applicants to have completed a bachelor degree or a bachelor of technology degree from a recognised Indian institution.

Grade: Minimum aggregate of 60% and above

English language requirements (one of the below):

• IELTS 6.0 overall (6.5 for integrated programmes)
• IELTS 5.5 in all four components (listening, reading, speaking and writing)
• PTE 50 (55 for integrated programmes)
• PTE 42 in all four components (listening, reading, speaking and writing)gg

University of Plymouth Highlights

University of Plymouth Average Tuition Fees And Other Expenses

• Cost of attendance for various 2020-21:

• The mandatory fee (2,622 USD annually) breakdown can be seen as: