Course Overview

MA Experimental Theatre Practice is for practitioners who want to advance their skills as artistic collaborators passionate about research, making, performing, directing, writing, and producing their work within a collaborative network and diversely creative community.

You will work within an ethos of skills exchange, horizontal hierarchies, process, and practice-based learning. You will be invited to place your ideas and methods in dialogue with critical techniques and current thinking within the broader socio-political and cultural landscape, finding new ways to work with different forms, materials, and media.

The course has an international outlook and is committed to forging connections between European and non-western theatre perspectives. It encourages site-specific and site-located work and theatre practices that combine media, connect spaces, immerse audiences, and constantly re-consider what theatre might look like in the 21st Century.

Practical work will be underpinned by contextual study, deepening and broadening an understanding of the field through the seminar, presentations, and debating forums. Students position their perspectives within the many converging and contesting views that make our contemporary landscape vibrant and dynamic. Students are immersed in embodied practice via taught workshops while intellectually considering the semiotic and phenomenological encounters involved in a creative process.

MA Experimental Theatre Practice offers a solid structure of learning which allows for flexibility and freedom within. It invites students from all live art disciplines (Acting, Theatre Studies, Musical Theatre, Drama, Dance, and Performance Studies) and students who may wish to place their own (non-live) practice proposal within the live medium to use the live experience as a mode of analysis.

General Eligibility

2:1 or above at undergraduate or equivalent professional experience.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• International Students will require IELTS with a minimum of 6.5 in each category.