Course details

This one year course provides an intensive production-led study in theatre performance. It enables learners to develop the personal qualities and performance skills essential to an actor/performer, self-confidence, focus, concentration, flexibility, trust, imagination and co-operation. Training prepares students to perform in a range of Media.

Programme of Study

  • Alexander Technique
  • Physical Theatre
  • Improvisation
  • Devising
  • Voice/Singing
  • Acting Skills
  • Dance
  • Stage Combat
  • Fencing
  • Puppets/Masks
  • Stage Management
  • Communications
  • Set Design & Construction
  • Lighting
  • TV/Film
  • Audition

Components subject to change

Entry Requirements

  • Leaving Certificate or Equivalent
  • Leaving Certificate Applied
  • Full QQI Level 4 Award
  • Mature students – experience will be considered in lieu of formal qualifications

Places are offered following successful interview and successful participation in a workshop/audition.

Career Opportunities

This course provides skills and training which will enable learners to identify and seek employment in the ever expanding Performing Arts / Entertainment industry.

Higher Education Progression*

DIT:

Drama (Performance) (DT529)

TCD:

  • Drama and Theatre Studies (TR025)

NUI Galway:

  • Arts (Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies): (GY118)

BIFE:

  • Performing Arts –Theatre (BTEC Higher National Diploma Level 6+)

Certification

QQI Level 5 Award in Performing Arts (5M5151)

Updated on 08 November, 2015

About Bray Institute of Further Education

Bray Institute of Further Education (BIFE) caters for learners with a wide variety of needs - from those who want to do University Degrees at hontheirs level to those who are training for employment. 

They are located on Novara Avenue, Bray; 150 metres from the town centre and within walking distance of the Dart station. The Institute is just a short jtheirney from Dublin City Centre. 

Bray Institute of Further Education has been a centre of excellence in the field of Further Education for the past twenty-five years serving all areas of the country including Dublin. 

BIFE is a constituent Institute of Kildare / Wicklow Education Training Board (KWETB).  

They offer a wide range of Further Education (PLC) ctheirses both full and part-time at the Institute.

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