Text and Performance (MA)
Master
In London
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
This highly distinctive MA in Text and Performance, run as a partnership between Birkbeck and RADA, brings together cutting-edge practice and scholarship in theatre and performance. Join us and you will work with Birkbeck's experts in theatre and performance studies and RADA's faculty and visiting theatre practitioners to experience both making and studying theatre.
This course does not offer actor training, but will deepen your critical and practical understanding of theatre and performance practices in context, and leads to a prestigious postgraduate qualification from the University of London.
Taking the dramatic text as a critical starting point, our course encompasses drama from the early modern period to the contemporary. In rehearsal, you will create new theatre and performance work responding to set texts and themes. You will also engage with performance techniques to develop your skills as a playwright, director and dramaturg.
In academic lectures and seminars, you will encounter theoretical, historical, critical and philosophical writings. You will theorise live performance and write about the ways in which new performance work is informed by both contemporary concerns and older theatrical traditions and legacies. In the final dissertation project, you will exercise your own creative voice as a director, dramaturg, playwright or scholar.
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About this course
This programme uniquely combines the practical and academic exploration of theatre and performance, which means you will graduate equipped with a broad range of highly employable skills, ideal for entering the creative industries or undertaking further academic study.
Our graduates can be found in a wide range of exciting careers including teaching and education, theatre practice, advertising, marketing and public relations, theatre, media, film and the creative arts, journalism, arts administration and outreach, policy and strategy for political organisations, charities or NGOs, and publishing.
MA Text and Performance does not take the place of training in a specific conservatoire discipline and is therefore described as non-vocational.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London's top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
You will need to have, or be expecting, a second-class honours degree (2:2) or above, usually in an arts subject.
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Subjects
- Risk
- Theatre
- IT risk
- Playwright
- Approaches to Theatre
- Approaches
- Theatre and Performance Practice
- Performance Practice
- Performance
- Scene Study
- Theorising the Contemporary
Course programme
You take three modules in the autumn and spring terms and write a dissertation in the summer term.
Theorising the Contemporary will be taught at Birkbeck, Approaches to Theatre and Performance Practice at RADA and Scene Study at both Birkbeck and RADA.
MODULE GROUPSMODULES- Approaches to Theatre and Performance Practice
- Scene Study
- Theorising the Contemporary
- Dissertation: Theatre and Performance Research
Additional information
Full-time home students: £12120 pa
Full-time international students: £18240 pa
Text and Performance (MA)