Music and Theatre

This joint honours course combines the study of two major and complementary performing arts, drama and music, within a campus community recognised for its creativity. choosing to study drama at royal holloway will put you at the centre of one of the largest and most influential drama and theatre departments in the world. you'll create performances, analyse texts, and bring a range of critical ideas to bear on both. on this course the text and the body, thinking and doing, work together. there's no barrier between theory and practice: theory helps you understand and make the most of practice, while practice sheds light on theory. by moving between the two, you'll find your place as an informed theatre-maker, and by studying a variety of practices, by yourself and with others, you'll get knowledge of the industry as a whole, and learn how your interests could fit into the bigger picture.

ELP programs are offered by universities or pathway institutions to assist students in achieving the language proficiency required for academic studies. You can get admitted to your course with a lower language requirement if you do an ELP program.

Our graduates go into a wide variety of careers, as well as further academic study. many go into acting, stage management, broadcasting (including at the bbc), arts administration, journalism, teaching, health, marketing, and pr. lots of our graduates also start their own performing arts companies.you'll be familiar and confident in performance situations – skills which are vital for leading meetings and make you viable for visible leadership roles. you'll also walk away with considerable experience of technical, intellectual, imaginative, and practical skills, valued by most employers. aside from these performance skills, you'll also get skills in research and project management from the academic side of the course. find out more about what our graduates are doing now.

Work while you study

You can also work on a UK student visa, from 10 to 20 hours per week during the academic year, 40 hours per week or full-time during vacations.

Partnerships

Most universities in England have partnerships with different companies and organisations to ensure their students get enough professional training as students. In addition to increasing their students' chances to get hired by one of the universities. Royal Holloway, University of London has partnerships with the following companies: