Bachelor of Arts Community Studies - Applied Theatre

Throughout Cape Breton culture, students will find music, dance, theatre and the arts all around them. Cape Breton University collaborates and takes the stage together to engage with an individual's community through a positive, creative medium.

Applied Theatre helps students adapt practical theatre skills to achieve their goals in non-traditional performance contexts and styles. They could work as an animator at a living history site, use theatre to raise awareness around social issues, create experiences that build or celebrate community, engage youth in learning opportunities, and help at-risk populations develop skills and support networks.

At Cape Breton University, students can study traditional theatre skills such as acting, directing and stage management, alongside the versatile techniques of applied theatre, including improvisation and devising. Students can enhance their studies with work placements and courses that support applied theatre careers, like entrepreneurship, marketing, musicology or cultural policy.

By studying applied theatre, students can learn how to recognize the needs of their communities and use theatre to meet those needs, bringing real change to the world in which they live.