Musical Theatre and Politics BA

MUSICAL THEATRE

Liverpool is a lively city filled with a diverse creative scene and a strong theatrical community. Musical theatre plays a key role in this dynamic landscape. Our students love going to national tours at The Empire Theatre. They also enjoy international events, like the Eurovision Song Contest.

This degree focuses on hands-on musical theatre study. It also includes theoretical analysis from various eras. You'll focus on vocal training, acting skills, and dance techniques. This combination will help you grow as a performer and reach your full potential.

At Hope, the musical theatre course aims to build an ensemble theatre company. This helps develop your professional practice and awareness. You'll study musical theatre history to deepen your understanding of the genre. You'll explore various musical styles and repertoire, both individually and as a group. Weekly one-on-one singing lessons will enhance your vocal technique and teach you about vocal health. Your hands-on work is paired with weekly tutorials and lectures. These sessions help you boost your academic writing and analytical skills.

The course is led by Musical Theatre experts. They have real production and performance experience in the West End and regional theatres. They provide current insights and guidance, plus opportunities to work with industry professionals.

POLITICS

Politics affects all of us. It is central to human life and human affairs. It is fundamental to how we organise and govern ourselves and to how we resolve conflicts. The decisions we make as political communities, who makes them and how, have consequences for how we live, from questions of war and peace, the distribution of wealth, our rights, freedoms, responsibilities, our access to education, transport and health care.

In this rapidly changing world, new challenges are constantly arising – from climate change to new technologies, from identity politics to Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic – and the study of politics needs to respond. At Liverpool Hope, therefore, we seek to engage with politics and political issues in the real world as they evolve and change over time. In doing so, we actively encourage free and open debate and discussion amongst our students, encouraging a stronger awareness and appreciation of different points of view.

On this programme of study, you will explore key ideas, institutions and politics in an international, national and local context. You will be taught by staff who are experts in their fields, who will teach you to engage with political research and develop the capacity to be an independent, critically-minded scholar. The course also aims to equip you with transferable skills to take into the world of work.

Liverpool Hope can also offer work placement opportunities. In Politics we’ve also organised a Practitioners in Politics series of events, in conjunction with our Careers Office, where individuals including MPs, the Mayor of Liverpool and the Merseyside Commissioner for Crime and Policing have come to advise students on pathways into political careers and the skills needed to get there.