Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)

Audition requirements

Applicants must prepare and submit:

• An artistic personal statement
• Spoken word or poetry performance
• A creative response to the Solstice brief

Please consult the Theatre Audition Booklet for detailed audition guidelines. The audition booklet will become available when applications open in August.

The performance piece must be recorded in one take without edits. Please also see Recorded Audition Tips for helpful advice on how to film your monologues.

Callback Audition

Shortlisted applicants should prepare to:

• perform one/all of their chosen monologues
• collaborate with others
• respond to direction.

Further information will be given to each candidate invited to a callback audition.

Please note, that applicants will not be advantaged, nor disadvantaged, in selection by attending either an on-campus or an online callback audition.

How will I be assessed?

Your audition will be assessed against the following criteria by the selection panel:

• Capacity to articulate ideas and concepts and reflect an emerging interest and aesthetic in performance.
• Evidence of playfulness and inventiveness with speaking and working with text in performance.
• Capacity to creatively and confidently realise a performance piece
• Demonstration of imaginative and creative alacrity

In the callback audition, shortlisted applicants will be assessed against the following criteria by the selection panel:

• Evidence of physical, vocal and kinaesthetic awareness, and potential for development
• Evidence of capacity to listen and respond to direction, input or feedback imaginatively
• Demonstrate a capacity for collaboration and open collaborative practice in performance making
• Demonstrate you can work with flexibility and openness to ideas and concepts

Please note that all applicants will be ranked based on the above criteria, up to the capacity of places within the course