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Theatre, Performance and Participation (Taught)

  • 2 Study options
  • Postgraduate
Goldsmiths, University of London
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2027-2028
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Course summary

Why study MA Theatre, Performance and Participation at Goldsmiths

This is an interdisciplinary MA programme for performance makers, researchers, facilitators and writers who want to use performance to respond to the most urgent social, political and ecological issues of our times.

The MA Theatre, Performance & Participation programme allows you to specialise in one of four pathways while working and learning across disciplines:

  • Performance Makers & Theatre Artists

  • Applied Theatre & Participatory Artists

  • Writers & Dramaturgs

  • Cultural Producers & Critical Researchers

This programme equips you with the skills, networks and resilience to contribute to, build and reimagine artistic and cultural structures in theatre, performance and participation.

It is designed for socially aware, critically curious and innovative artists, facilitators and researchers that want to develop their creative practice, theoretical analysis, and new forms of collaboration and activism.

You will:

  • expand your understanding of the contexts and politics shaping performance, while critically engaging with your role and approach as an artist, collaborator and/or researcher

  • experiment with different ways of making or using performance and develop an innovative, socially responsive practice

  • delve deeply into knowledge and skills related to your specific discipline

  • develop, realise and reflect on an independent project, engaging with material of personal and professional interest

Modules

What you'll study

Practice and theory are continually intertwined through workshops, seminars and independent study.

In Autumn and Spring terms, you will have classes two days a week. In the Summer term, you will have taught classes for the first three weeks and then will be engaged in independent projects with tutorials and supervision arranged at times to suit you.

You'll study the following compulsory modules:

  • Catalysts & Foundations

  • Modes & Forms

  • Professional Specialisms

  • Creative Research Project

Ways to study this course

Campuses

  • Goldsmiths, University of London

Study options

  • MA • Full-Time • 1 Years
  • MA • Part-Time • 2 Years

Start dates

How to apply

Entry requirements

We welcome candidates to the programme who are interested in exploring their own creative practice in theatre and performance, and who demonstrate a competence for independent research and a keenness to work collaboratively.

Qualifications
You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least second class standard in a relevant/related subject.

You might also be considered for this programme if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

We accept a wide range of international qualifications.

If English isn’t your first language, you will need an IELTS score (or equivalent English language qualification) of 6.5 with a 6.5 in writing and no element lower than 6.0 to study this programme.

International entry requirements

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Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.

Additional fee information

For details of fees and funding please visit https://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/fees-funding/ or the programme page on our website.

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