Theatre and Performance (Taught)

The MA Theatre and Performance will support your advanced research and practice in experimental theatre, socially engaged and participatory performance, live art, and activism. It will develop you as an independent scholar-artist, skilled at understanding, challenging and making theatre and performance as technologies for intervening in the most pressing issues of our times. The kinds of issues we will explore include gender, sexual, racial and class identity; protest and activism; and change towards climate and social justice.

You will:

• Work with world-leading academics and theatre practitioners

• Study topics such as performance and embodiment, performance ethics, live art, and art as activism

• Expand your knowledge and practice with our reimagined modules 'Culture, Ethics, Politics', 'Body, Action, Documentation' & 'Performance, Activism, Social Justice'

• Choose from a practical or written dissertation

• Undertake practice-based research in theatre and performance.

• What you'll study*

Our MA Theatre and Performance encourages you to explore your own ideas in depth and build a body of original, thought-provoking work. A key benefit of the programme is its flexibility: across compulsory and optional modules, you can develop your interests in both theoretical and practical projects to advance your expertise and career.

We balance rigorous theoretical and historical exploration with experimental performance practice. You will work with our internationally respected academic staff and attend workshops and mentoring sessions with in-house and visiting artists throughout your studies, building your professional network in the process. In recent years our MA has hosted a wide range of high-profile artists, including Stacy Makishi, Peggy Shaw and Manuel Vason among others.

You will see the latest in contemporary theatre, from live art to productions at international institutions like the Royal Court.

To develop your experience in the cultural industries, we offer a brief placement with one of our partner organisations or artists.