BA PA HCA

Congratulations to our 2025 graduating BA(Hons) Performing Arts students!

🔎🧙‍♂️ Witch Hunters Wanted at Witchy Tales! Family-Friendly Halloween Fun Awaits! 🧙‍♀️🔎

Calling all fearless families! The witches are gathering, and we need YOUR help to track them down! Witchy Tales invites you to the historic Black and White House Museum for a spooky family-friendly adventure through magic and mystery. Enjoy the live performances filled with original, live music every 30 minutes—perfect for witch hunters of all ages!

🕰 Dates: 29th - 31st October
⏰ Performance Times: Every 30 minutes, 10:30 AM - 2 PM
📍 Location: Black and White House Museum

Bring your cloaks, lanterns, and little hunters!

Big thank you to James Price, Art Director of Poor things and Academy Award and BAFTA winner for meeting and speaking with our Performing Arts students about your creative and career journey from being a student to working in the film industry.

We are thrilled to have Greg Banks on our BA Performing Arts teaching team.

Greg is a multi-award winning director and playwright. He has been working in theatre for over thirty years, establishing a National and International reputation in his work for new audiences of all ages.
Earlier this year Greg received the Charlotte B Chorpenning award for his ‘Outstanding Body of Work for Young People’, in the USA.
His plays take the realities of life and the harshness of our classic stories and render an epic work that speaks directly to, not at, young people, producing works of transformation and grand adventure. Greg’s scripts have a fluid muscularity and a rhythm that is echoed in the strongly physical nature of his direction.

Music is an essential component and a close collaboration with composers and on stage musicians creates a live and original score, ensuring that the music is fully integrated into the work, driving the story forwards, evoking place and emotion in a very specific way.

Greg has written over thirty original scripts many of which are currently being produced at Theatres and other venues throughout the US and Canada.

Our students are in for a treat, as Greg will be working with our students to develop their acting skills and will direct them for their end of Semester 1 showcase.

Our new first year cohort are starting the creative rehearsal process to develop their very first family friendly performance for the for the end October. Save the date(s)....29th, 30th and 31st October. All performances will take place in the Black and White House Museum...perfect setting for a .

Congratulations to our 2024 Performing Arts graduating students. We are so, so proud of you!

Wishing you all the best and much joy on the next part of your journey.

Also in picture (only 5 people could be tagged!? Sorry Tash)

Final shows of with our students taking place today.

The cast is looking forward to perform to 200 school children this afternoon and friends, family and public at 6.30pm.

Welcoming the fabulous Paul Slack today. Our students are finding fun and joy performing in preparation for their Midsummer Night's Dream performance in May at . Who better to help them with that than Paul with all his experience of working with the Royal Shakespeare Company!?

As the campus starts to become quiet with summer shows over we wish all our students (just completed, current and future!) a very happy summer!

Rest, recoup and enjoy yourselves.

So looking forward to seeing you all in September!

The PA team

Our wonderful cast!

The Cherry Orchard performance has been named by us 'the never-ending show', as it was a show that was picked up and then put on hold and then picked up and put on hold and picked up....you get the cycle....making theatre during Covid times has certainly been interesting!!

But we did it - the Cherry Orchard was performed this year and the performances by all our Performing Arts students were absolutely outstanding!

The cast clearly knew their characters inside out, by the time the show eventually happened.

Well done for all your dedication and keeping the motivation!