Malmö Theatre Academy
The Malmö Theatre Academy offers programmes for actors and playwrights at the Bachelor’s degree level. After that, students have the opportunity to continue their studies to a Master’s degree for actors, directors and playwrights as well as to pursue a doctoral degree. We have also started a programme in Theatre in Theory and Practice together with the Centre for Languages and Literature in Lund. The Theatre Academy strives to be known for its long-range and consistently structured education and for the close cooperation between the academy’s different subjects. The academy has close contacts with other theatres and drama programmes around Sweden. International contacts have also long contributed to shaping the academy’s profile. The academy’s teaching premises are in central Malmö and it also has a modern, well-equipped theatre at its disposal for public performances.
Bachelor’s programme in Acting
The aim of the programme is to produce creative and independent actors, who are able, in cooperation with others, to satisfy artistic requirements in various theatrical contexts. The programme lasts three years and entitles students to continue to Master’s level studies once they have obtained their Bachelor’s degree. Of the approximately one thousand applicants each year, twelve students are admitted as a rule. Besides the main subject, stage performance, tuition is also provided in technical subjects such as movement, voice and diction, singing, music and theory.
Bachelor’s programme in Dramatic Writing
The drama writing programme at the Malmö Theatre Academy has a clear
focus on method designed to be useful regardless of the style, genre or
aesthetic direction in which the student’s fictional writing develops.
The most important element consists in getting students to learn to
relate their work with the text to stage action and situation. Learning
to do this implies simultaneously taking an explorative attitude to
writing. This is the basis for the text’s interaction with the work of
the actors and leads, once it is mastered, to an increased freedom in
writing for the stage. Students who apply to the programme in Malmö are
presumed to accept that the programme has this emphasis on method; they
are also to be prepared to dedicate the time and effort that experience
has shown to be needed in order to acquire these skills.
The
programme takes three years.
Theatre in Theory and Practice
The Theatre Academy in Malmö and the subject of Drama at the Centre for
Languages and Literature have launched a completely new course called
Theatre in Theory and Practice, with the aim of renewing Swedish drama
research and education. The course’s main objective is to unify a
scholarly and theoretical study of drama with artistic and practical
aspects. This type of course has already been available for some time in
Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the USA, where this
approach has contributed to a renewal and a fruitful broadening of the
very concept of drama. In the long term, the course aims to create a new
area of knowledge, in which the traditional courses in drama and acting
strive together for an understanding of the role of theatre in society.
The
course is given at undergraduate level.
Master’s courses for actors, directors and playwrights
The Master’s courses are designed to offer the opportunity to explore
one’s own creative work, based on current movements and European
theatrical tradition. The aim is to define one’s own art. The courses
attempt to answer questions such as: What will theatre be like in the
future? The establishment of these courses has meant a new take on
today’s theatre climate. Previous students from the Theatre Academy in
Malmö have gone on to form some of the most important and innovative
theatre companies in Sweden today. The Master’s programme is designed to
further increase the Theatre Academy’s contribution to this development.
The
programme lasts two years with the possibility of gaining a one-year
Master’s degree after the first year. Research and doctoral studies The
Theatre Academy in Malmö has two full time researchers, Kent Sjöström
and Erik Rynell. Besides this, the academy is involved in artistic
doctoral studies with two appointed doctoral students, Christina
Ouzounidis and Petra Hultberg.
Last modified 21 Mar 2011