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.

Assessment

You will normally be assessed by a combination of essay, of about 3,500 words, and a presentation for each seminar-based module you take, a combination of a performance project and portfolio documentation for practice-based modules and either the written dissertation of 12,000-15,000 words or the practice-based dissertation with a 5,000 word critical analysis and documentation of practice-based research.

Career paths

We train scholar-artists who can pursue a wide range of careers: we prepare you for research degrees in theatre and performance, help you to develop your own work as an artist or prepare you for a role in the cultural and creative industries, or in a range of other creative professions.