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BPA Theatre
Theatre is one of the oldest forms of human expression — a space for storytelling, performance, and social transformation. The BPA Theatre program at WUD’s School of Performing Arts equips students with the artistic, technical, and intellectual foundations to thrive in both traditional and contemporary theatre, while also engaging with today’s creative industries.
The program combines acting, stagecraft, directing, dramaturgy, and performance traditions with training in theatre history, cultural studies, and critical theory. Students explore both classical and folk theatre forms alongside contemporary practices, devised performance, and digital/immersive theatre, ensuring they are rooted in heritage yet prepared for future possibilities. Emphasis is placed on collaboration, experimentation, and sustainability, with students working on live productions, workshops, and community-based projects.
Technology plays a key role — students gain experience in lighting, sound, set design, digital scenography, and hybrid performance tools that expand theatrical storytelling. Guided by accomplished theatre practitioners, students develop their own artistic voice, critical thinking, and the confidence to perform and create across diverse contexts.

Career outcomes:Graduates can pursue careers as actors, directors, playwrights, stage/production designers, dramaturgs, theatre educators, art administrators, critics, or community theatre leaders. Opportunities also exist in film, television, digital media, advertising, events, arts management, and applied theatre (therapy, education, social change). With India’s expanding cultural industries and global collaborations, this program offers both creative fulfillment and sustainable career pathways.

Curriculum

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Core
Language - I Language - II Natyashastra – I Natyashastra – II Direction – I Direction – II Stage performance and Viva-Voce Stage performance and Viva-Voce
Acting - I Acting - II Acting - III Acting - IV Production Design-I Production Design-II Stage performance and Viva-Voce Stage performance and Viva-Voce
Performance Traditions of India - I Performance Traditions of India - II Global Performance Traditions Music and Theatre Costume, Make up & Light Design -1 Costume, Make up & Light Design- II Personal Portfolio Development Professional Portfolio (Working with Professional Artist as a Intern)
Non - Core
Fundamentals of Stage Craft Stage Craft and Design - I Stage Craft and Design - II New Media and Performance Practice I New Media and Performance Practice II Collaborative Practice    
Movement for Actors - I Movement for Actors - II Computer Skills-I Computer Skills-II        
Essentials
Persuasive Communication - I Persuasive Communication - II Contemporary Indian Theatre-I Contemporary Indian Theatre-II Theatre in Education-I Theatre in Education-II Project Work  
Theatre, Sustainability and the Environment - I Theatre, Sustainability and the Environment - II Script Writing and Screenplay-I Script Writing and Screenplay-II Cultural Management-I Cultural Management-II Project Work  
Electives
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