Bristol Old Vic theatre school to stop its undergraduate courses

Olivia Colman, seen at the Wicked Little Letters film premiere in London, trained at Bristol Old Vic theatre school. Photograph: Dave Hogan/Rex/Shutterstock

One of the UK’s most celebrated drama schools, which counts the Oscar-winners Olivia Colman, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jeremy Irons among its alumni, is to scrap its undergraduate degrees due to a range of financial challenges.

Bristol Old Vic theatre school, founded in 1946, said its undergraduate training model was now “financially unsustainable”.