Facilities

 

 

 

Since April 2000 the Department has been based at the Parry-Williams Building. Both there and at its other buildings it has a wide range of superb facilities and resources at its disposal, including:

  • a digital media suite designed specifically for work in digital production and editing;
  • three fully-equipped theatre spaces, seating approximately 100 people each;
  • three rehearsal studios, each with sprung floors and flexible technical facilties;
  • a new studio dedicated to performance research and experimental theatre practice;
  • a dedicated high definition television production studio;
  • 36 digital and HD editing suites, over 50 industry standard HD digital cameras, digital vision mixer and enhanced digital gallery facilities;
  • a digital sound studio with advanced digital recording and editing equipment;
  • access to the Centre for Performance Research Resource Centre, a unique set of collections of books and audio-visual materials on world theatre and performance;
  • lecture theatres with integrated screening facilities;
  • close proximity to the National Library of Wales, one of the four copyright deposit Libraries of the UK, including the specialist National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
  • access to major theatre and cinema events at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, one of the largest campus Arts Centres in the UK. further facilities are available to students through our partnerships with Boomerang Plus plc, Wales's largest independent television production company, Theatr Arad Goch, an Aberystwyth-based community theatre organisation which has benefitted from substantial recent investment, and BBC Wales whose local offices and broadcast studios are housed within the Department.

 

 

In and around the town of Aberystwyth, there are many other formal and informal playing areas which are utilised for productions throughout the year.

These spaces in conjunction with the facilities of the Arts Centre are capable of meeting the wide variety of needs imposed upon it by student, staff and guest practitioners.

Theatr y Werin, on the campus, also provides a varied programme of professional productions from companies like Hull Truck, Cambridge Theatre Company, Theatr Clwyd and Volcano Theatre.