Diploma · Initial professional preparation
Diploma in Theatre & Performance (Acting stream)
University of Cape Town - Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies · Rondebosch, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Award
- Diploma in Theatre & Performance
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In personthree year diploma programme
- Price
- Not published
About this program
Three-year practical vocational diploma with an Acting (Stage and Camera) orientation, for students who do not qualify for the BA on matric results but show exceptional potential at audition.
- Offering
- Conservatory / diploma training
- Fields
- Theatre acting
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Diploma
- Exact award
- Diploma in Theatre & Performance
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- University of Cape Town
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- three year diploma programme
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Teaching location
- UCT Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Theatre applicants present two acting pieces of maximum 2 minutes each (ideally contrasting monologues); published in the 2026 audition information for the 2027 intake
- Self-tape
- Yes
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Callback
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Online audition portfolio (cover letter, reference letter, self-tape video), then in-person call-back audition on 5 or 6 September 2026 for shortlisted applicants.
- References
- Reference letter of a maximum of 2 pages
- Writing or research sample
- Cover letter of a maximum of 2 pages
- Intakes
- 2027
- Deadlines
- The closing date for applications for undergraduate study at UCT in 2027 is 31 July 2026. · this date has passed; check the current cycle
- In-person call-back audition on the 5th or 6th September 2026
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
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Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: price, experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)