Theatre Art is at the centre of the cultural expression of Caribbean peoples.  As a discipline, Theatre Arts tend to reflect life and contribute uniquely to the spiritual, intellectual, social, emotional and aesthetic growth of an individual.

Dance and Drama are two major components of Theatre Arts.  The third component, Stagecraft, links Dance and Drama by providing the crafts and skills required for producing theatre.

Through Theatre Arts we are able to express our deepest emotions, thus satisfying our innate urge to communicate.  It is this urge to communicate that helps us to interact with the world.  Theatre Arts provide an important means of understanding, constructing, appreciating and communicating social and cultural values, interpreting, valuating and transmitting the traditions of the past, and exploring, celebrating and challenging the present and imagining the future.

Theatre Arts make use of a variety of arts such as dancing, choreographing, acting, playwriting and directing; a variety of crafts such as those of the carpenter, painter, artist and designer; and a variety of skills such as organisation, coordination and stage management of activities.

Thus, the Theatre Arts syllabus is organised to be taught and experiences under three main organising principles namely, Analysing and Appreciating, Performing and Creating through Dance, Drama and Stagecrafts.  As such Theatre Arts should not be conceived of as three distinct disciplines.  Rather, the Theatre Arts syllabus has been designed to provide experiences that would enable the student to appreciate and communicate theatrical events with their minds as well as their senses, emotions and their bodies, thereby fostering self-confidence, self-discipline and self-motivation.

The syllabus aims to:

• Foster appreciation for the forms that Theatre Arts have assumed in various cultural contexts in the Caribbean;
• Develop an understanding of the nature, processes and logistics of the theatre;
• Enable an appreciation for theatre by participating (as actor, playwright, director, artist, painter, designer, dancer, choreographer and stage manager in making theatre;
• Provide opportunity to experience theatre through the mind, senses, voice, emotions and body;
• Nurture an understanding of theatre by studying certain prescribed texts, audio and video tapes;
• Enable evaluation of texts and works of theatre through the written, oral and graphic media.

The Theatre Arts syllabus is made up of a compulsory core, three options or main areas of study and two projects that are to be completed during year two if the programme.  Each candidate must select the compulsory core, one of the three options or main areas and the two projects.