Theatre
Study dramatic arts, both on stage and behind the scenes.
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Push your creative boundaries with our hands-on, practical courses in the performing arts. Our Dramatic Arts courses offer training for all those interested in careers both on and off stage.
Theatre Arts will train you as a freelance performer for stage and screen, capable of creating and marketing your own shows.
If ‘behind the scenes’ is more your interest, then the two Production courses – Live Production and Costume for Performance - offer training in technical production (sound, lighting, stage management) or costume creation, from design to making.
Our Specialist Make-up course offers training in make-up from beauty and glamour through to creature prosthetics.
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Costume Design student Jarred hits the big time - and the big top
A thread of fabulousness runs through Jarred Dewey’s practice as an artist. He’s a circus performer, a contortionist, an aerialist on the trapeze, performing amazing feats high up in the air. He’s also a scholar of all things camp, of taste that is so bad that it’s good – and a Melbourne Polytechnic costume design student.
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30 years of love and finally a marriage fit for a theatre
The course of love does not always run smooth, to paraphrase the great bard, but sometimes it’s just meant to be.
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Real-World Experience for Students in Local Production
Melbourne Polytechnic specialist make-up students are running away to the circus – getting real-world experience with a community theatre group.
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A Theatre Career Behind the Scenes
A year of full-time study and hands-on experience is creating multi-skilled theatre technicians who can take their pick of careers in the live production industry.
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