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DEFINITION
The dramatic art is closely related to literature and aims to present to the public the artistic product by using multiple techniques.

ADMISSION
The access to the theatrical studies can be made according to the two following modes :

a) The academic orientation system (baccalaureate all sections). In addition to the score, the access to the discipline is conditioned by the success in a test of aptitude in performance arts.

b) The competitive reorientation examination is open to the students having obtained their baccalaureate in the two years preceding the examination. The test comprises :

• Interview with a jury.

• Written test in theatrical culture.
• Practical test : interpretation of a situation and a stage improvisation.

REQUIRED SKILLS
Easy written, oral and corporal expression; physical aptitude; good memory; to like literature and reading.

LENGTH OF STUDIES
The theatrical studies last four years and are divided in two cycles :

• The first cycle lasts two years. At the end of the second year, a first cycle diploma (DEUPC) is delivered.

• The second cycle lasts two years. At the end of this cycle a diploma of theatrical studies (equivalent to the Maîtrise) is delivered in one of the two following options:
  • Dramatic play and theatrical creation.
  • Youth club activities and theater teaching

The attendance in the courses, directed works, practical works and activities on the field is compulsory.

EXAM REQUIREMENTS
The studies are submitted to the continuous control with half-yearly examinations.

The examinations held at the end of the academic year comprise two sessions: a main session and a control session.

To succeed, the student should have an average equal or superior to 10/20 in all the subjects (continuous control and examinations of the first and second sessions).

The same coefficient applies to the continuous control and the examinations.

FIELDS OF STUDY
The training program includes :

• Courses and guided works : Art history, text analysis and dramatic representations, psych-pedagogy, dramatic art.

• Practical workshops : corporal preparation, diction, characterization, dramatic play, production, theater for kids.
• Technical workshops : technical training, stage's techniques, masks and puppets, scenography.
• Training periods on the field complete the general theoretical teaching.

PROFESSIONAL PROSPECTS

• Professional actor, composer of theatrical works, production, stage's arts...

• Teaching and theatrical liveliness.

ACQUIRED COMPETENCIES
Mastering of the dramatic expression techniques, production, knowledge of the theatrical theories.

DRAMATIC ART INSTITUTE
Address : 2, Rue Danton, 1002 TUNIS, Bélvedère.

Phone    : 71 782 574          Fax : 71 783 468

Total number of teachers in 1998/1999 : 20.

Total number of students in 1998/1999 : 112

Created in 1982, the Institute receives 80 new students yearly. 130 graduates work today within theater groups, centers of dramatic arts and high schools. .